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Low Carbon Cities : Exploring New Crediting Approaches to Deliver Carbon and Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2018
By 2050, two-thirds of the planet's population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percentof the 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world's urban areas wereresponsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that numbercould grow...
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Climate Auctions : A Market-Based Approach to National Climate Action
World Bank Group - 2019
With the Paris Agreement and most of its detailed rulebook now finalized, countries and subnational actors face the challenge of translating climate targets and strategies into action and determining how to finance these actions. Through the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change...
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Thailand : Clean Energy for Green Low-Carbon Growth
World Bank Group - 2011
Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security...
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Climate Adaptation in Uzbekistan : Landscape Restoration Opportunities
World Bank Group - 2024
Land use plays a pivotal role in Uzbekistan's development, and embracing sustainable agriculture offers a promising pathway to achieving middle-income status. This report aims to identify hotspots of land degradation and declining productivity along with areas of adaptation opportunity where...
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Carbon Pricing for Climate Action
World Bank Group - 2021
Carbon prices are needed to incorporate climate change costs into economic decision making. Carbon pricing should be included as part of a broader arsenal of tools to achieve domestic climate targets, but it is not a silver bullet: other policy instruments and investments (for example, public...
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Measuring the Emissions and Energy Footprint of the ICT Sector : Implications for Climate Action
World Bank Group - 2024
Digitalization is increasing rapidly worldwide, requiring more energy, and resulting in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) two thirds of the world's population are now online. Estimates of the internet and communication technology (ICT)...
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Green Public Procurement : An Overview of Green Reforms in Country Procurement Systems
World Bank Group - 2021
This report provides an overview of international experience in the implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP). It focuses on the institutional framework that is needed to support the mainstreaming of GPP practices across government. The intention is to equip practitioners with a broad...
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Kosovo : A Future of Green Transport and Clean Air
World Bank Group - 2019
fleets. These substantially harm public health, productivity and efficiency in urban mobility. Kosovo is implementing the EU … social matters with the EU. On 6 February 2018, the European Commission published its expansion plan to cover up to six … Western Balkan countries including Kosovo with potential accession as members of the EU after 2025. This is relevant for …
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Tackling Plastics Pollution : Towards Experience-Based Policy Guidance
World Bank Group - 2023
The growth and impacts of plastic pollution have emerged as a major environmental challenge globally. Plastic pollution has a wide range of impacts on public health, ecosystems, biodiversity, and economies and can occur during each stage of the plastic lifecycle, from extraction of raw...
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