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corresponding World Bank's safeguards; and (ii) an acceptability assessment, to assess Poland's level of institutional capacity …The main objective of the assessment is to determine how Poland's environmental and social safeguard systems can be … current and future Bank-financed operations in Poland. This assessment will be done through a safeguard diagnostic review …
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emissions is expected to grow as the urban population is projected to increase by 2.3 billion people by 20502. As the world … meets some of the world's ambitious climate targets. Cities are viewed as the source of and the solution to many of today … Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC), hosted by the World Bank. The GPSC states that achieving sustainability requires the …
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The World Bank is developing a Sustainable Cities Implementation Framework for Europe and Central Asia to inform World … Cities. As part of this work, preliminary assessments were conducted in four countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania …, Poland and Romania. Air pollution has a major impact on the sustainability of an urban area. It is a significant cause of …
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The North Eastern Region (NER) in India is endowed with rich energy resources but faces significant bottlenecks in electricity access and availability levels. The per capita power consumption in NER is one-third of the national average. The region has a shortfall of about 500MW installed...
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The prime objective of the project/subproject is to improve the power sector in the State of Mizoram and capacity building to achieve sustainable development in the long term. The Project is expected to facilitate connection to remote/virgin area, to enhance the capacity & reliability of the...
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countries adopted quantified emission reductions obligations. Marking the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the World … Bank Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) the world's first global carbon fund, this report seeks to take stock of the World Bank …
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Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today … integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year ' s World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period …, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified …
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1. A reconsideration of environmental federalism / Wallace E. Oates -- 2. Global environmental governance, political lobbying and transboundary pollution / Surjinder Johal and Alistair Ulph -- 3. Endogenous transfrontier pollution / Michael Rauscher -- 4. Allocating greenhouse gas emissions...
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