Sustainability Archives - CommDev

Empowering Women, Creating Jobs, and Transforming Communities

In Fiji’s Water-Scarce Villages, a Sovereign Green Bond Turns on the Tap

Romania’s Bold Blue Future

Q&A: How strengthening the care economy can boost women’s workforce participation

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in the Himalayas

Thanks to My Smartphone, Business is Booming

Financing a bright future for South Asia

Harnessing technical expertise for infrastructure resilience

Greening Cities in the Western Balkans: Good for Growth, Good for Budgets, Good for the Planet

Small Business, Big Impact: Empowering Women SMEs for Success

How can we unlock infrastructure finance at scale for developing countries?

Why we need resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future

How a New Innovative Financing Tool is Greening Buildings in Cities

Steps for Renewable Energy Companies to Decarbonize their Supply Chain

Voltalia Looks to Decarbonize its Renewable Energy Supply Chain

As Colombia leads on renewables, boosting its clean hydrogen industry is the next step. The World Bank is ready to help.

Going Digital: Five Young People Leading Malawi’s Tech Transformation

Is infrastructure research keeping up with modern challenges?

Kigali’s Big Shift to Small Electric Motorcycles Brings More Than Just Climate Benefits

As Colombia leads on renewables, boosting its clean hydrogen industry is the next step. The World Bank is ready to help

Benchmarking infrastructure development data now at your fingertips!

Why Women are Essential for Climate Action: A Conversation with Franziska Deininger

The gender dividend begins with investing in women and girls

Sustainable Finance for Power Utilities: Latin America Leading the Charge

Türkiye’s Climate-Smart Future

India: unlocking the potential of floating solar power

Transforming Transportation 2024: A Rallying Call for Sustainable Mobility

Transformative Finance: Key to Accelerating Equality

How Rwanda’s inaugural Sustainability-Linked Bond broke new ground in leveraging private capital

Five tips to communicate your environmental action with transparency

Women and Girls in Science and STEM

Did you say, “Women and Girls in Science”? Meet Sally, who proves that women can succeed in STEM

Greening social accountability for climate finance

Bogotá’s women in the e-bus driver’s seat

The Role of Community Engagement in Offshore Wind Energy Projects

The Missing ‘G’ in ESG – Can Sustainability-Linked Finance Fill the Gap?

Business’s Role in Advancing Women, Children, and Adolescents’ Wellbeing

Social sustainability: a critical gap in the global development agenda

Gender in metals and mining

Metals and Mining Hold the Key to the Energy Transition. Gender-smart Businesses Can Be the Driver.

How a new financing pact can help climate-vulnerable countries

Net Zero Transition Climate Finance

Financing Net Zero: How to incentivize credible climate action through sustainability-linked and transition finance

Net Zero Climate Net Zero Poverty

Bridging Net Zero and Poverty Zero Goals: A Crucial Framework for Global Sustainability

Deliver the future: Catalyzing opportunities for women, children and adolescents

Gender-smart climate finance is critical for progress, results, and impact

Indigenous people just transition

Five considerations for a just transition for Indigenous communities and ethnic minorities

Indigenous Voice in Mining

“A Powerful Path Towards Reconciliation”: How Indigenous Voices Can Be Heard In Mining Governance

Building a sustainable future: Affordable green housing in emerging markets

Closing Gender Gaps Unlocks Infrastructure Benefits for All

Clean, inclusive, and green: ESG underpins mining’s net-zero pathways

gender social inclusion nature based solutions

Integrating gender and social inclusion in nature-based solutions: a way forward

The Case for Including Data Stewardship in ESG

We Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Fighting for Gender Equity

Women Work on Community Climate Resilience Plan

With open data, frontline communities and companies can build climate resilience

6 Reasons Why Social Metrics Matter in Sustainability-Linked Finance

Social or stakeholder? The S in ESG is evolving to encompass more than social considerations

Lifting barriers to gender-responsive infrastructure

Biodiversity Finance for Infrastructure Companies in Emerging Markets: How to Move from Objectives to Actions

The quest to fill the infrastructure financing gap for people and planet

Potential Role of Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) in Sustainable Cities

Mining quarry Barossa Valley

Predictions and protection: can software and data improve ESG in mining?

Tree lined Road to sustainability

Sustainability: A Journey, Not A Destination