Rising to the policy challenges

This Report has focused on the large disparities across people, groups and countries—disparities that coexist with and worsen environmental degradation and loss of ecosystem services that the world’s poor depend on. Yes, the challenges are massive. But in several respects conditions today are more conducive to progress than ever. Global public awareness is higher, and the new calls for democracy sweeping parts of the world augur well for reform.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development