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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook

World Bank Group - 2016

This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...

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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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Fueling Kyrgyzstan's Transition to Clean Household Heating Solutions

World Bank Group - 2020

In the Kyrgyz Republic, access to reliable and affordable heating is critical given the cold and long winters in its mountainous regions. With central heating solutions such as district heating limited to the capital city Bishkek and other urban areas, over 80 percent of households resort to...

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Results-Based Climate Finance in Practice : Delivering Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Development

World Bank Group - 2017

Results-based financing is a well-established financing modality in the health and education sectors but it is still in an early stage of deployment in the area of climate change. This report reviews 74 results-based climate financing (RBCF) programs implemented in developing countries with an...

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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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Response Note to COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia : Policy and Practice Recommendations

World Bank Group - 2020

The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Education Team's vision is for education systems to empower all to reach their full potential. In line with this vision, the purpose of this guidance note is to provide recommendations and policy advice for decision-makers on potential education responses to the...

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Greener Transport Connectivity for Eastern Partnership Countries

World Bank Group - 2020

European Union (EU) and its six Eastern neighbours. One of its four priority areas is stronger connectivity which includes the … regulatory convergence across transport modes between member countries and with the EU to heighten the focus on energy efficiency … Union in 1989. At the same time, EaP countries are acutely aware of the need to converge with the EU in terms of energy …

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Net Zero Energy by 2060 : Charting the Path of Europe and Central Asia Toward a Secure and Sustainable Energy Future

World Bank Group - 2024

Since February 2022, geopolitical events have made clear Europe's need to diversify its energy sources and avoid excessive dependence on fossil fuel imports. The drop in Russian natural gas flows to Europe in 2022 marked the single largest supply shock in the history of global gas markets. It...

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