Resilience is the capacity to prepare for disruptions, recover from shocks, and grow from a disruptive experience. The World Bank Group has developed a Resilience Rating System that provides guidance and specific criteria to assess resilience along two complementary dimensions.
This report lays out a strategy for putting Americans back to work building a vibrant 21st century U.S. economy based on advanced technologies, good jobs, clean energy, climate safety, and economic security.
This report shares international examples of collaborative resilience-building and synthesises lessons transferable to any city, based on local contexts and risks.
This paper provides an integrated framework to design an economic recovery strategy aligned with sustainability objectives through a multi-criterion, multi-stakeholder lens. The aim is to enable decisions by policy makers with the aid of transparent workflows that include expert evidence that is based on quantitative open-source modeling, and qualitative input by diverse social actors in a participatory approach.
This report discusses why green innovation is essential, the enormous economic as well as environmental opportunities that it represents, and how it might be achieved. It highlights key challenges in five priority sectors (resources and waste, construction, water, food, transport of goods) and provides recommendations for policy makers and businesses.