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A new World Bank report released on Monday showed that for every dollar governments invest in protected areas and support for nature-based tourism, the economic rate of return is at least six-times the original investment.
The report, titled ‘Banking on protected areas: Promoting sustainable nature-based tourism to benefit local communities’, found that the original investment triggered a chain of benefits for local businesses and households – even for those not directly connected to the tourism sector.
Given these economic benefits, the report argued that the promotion of sustainable tourism in protected areas should be included in COVID-19 economic recovery plans, an investment that creates local jobs, improves incomes and protects biodiversity.
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Johns Hopkins University, World Bank & UNICEF (2021). COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker. Last updated as of 24 March 2021. Baltimore, Washington DC, New York: JHU, World Bank, UNICEF.
Education advocates from three global organizations have developed a tool that tracks and displays school reopening and recovery planning efforts in over 200 countries and territories.
The World Bank, Johns Hopkins University, and UNICEF have unveiled the COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker.
The online database breaks countries into six reopening categories: in-person education; hybrid/remote education; combination of in-person, hybrid, remote, and closed; schools closed due to a regular school calendar closure; completely closed; and, unknown status/data not available.