Environmental performance indicators : a second edition note
Segnestam, Lisa
In recent years, the Bank has substantially increased its lending portfolio for environmental projects. Various safeguard policies and other instruments have also been developed to ensure that adverse environmental impacts arising from Bank-supported activities are minimized. Monitoring and evaluating both positive and negative impacts of these activities play an important role in this process, and that is where environmental performance indicators (EPIs) are needed. Given the diversity of environmental problems and of the projects causing them or designed to address them, arriving at a set of "universal" indicators applicable to all situations is not feasible. This note provides a framework and selection criteria to assist task managers in selecting appropriate indicators for their projects and discusses issues that may arise in doing so. In the second half of the note, examples of EPIs in various broad categories of environmental problems are provided, along with a discussion of their strengths and limitations and the conditions under which they may be appropriate.
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