Over a half of a billion people live in extreme poverty, most of whom depend on natural resources for their survival. Yet these resources are becoming increasingly degraded, and climate change threatens to increase the vulnerability of the poor. The natural resources that are highly degraded and the people who are highly vulnerable are interconnected by the “natural resource degradation and human vulnerability nexus,” which is the subject of a recent evaluation by IEG.

Watch this video to learn more about the World Bank’s support for natural resources and the people that depend on them most, and read the full evaluation here: https://bit.ly/3tDSqhj