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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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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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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 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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For the use of water markets to introduce improve water resources management, the existence of adequate institutional … effective water resources management through use of the market mechanism. …
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Many developing countries sharing water resources of international river basins are facing serious problems in meeting …
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Water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have become a strategic commodity, with supply limited in terms of quantity … document is based on the principle that water is a scarce good with dimensions of economic efficiency, social equity, and … environmental sustainability. The strategy recommends an integrated, cross-sectoral, catchment area approach to water resources …
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Water pricing is an important way of improving water allocation and encouraging users to conserve scarce water … resources. This work presents water pricing experiences across 22 countries in various sectors and over time. Country cases …
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Lakes and reservoirs, which are key components of the world's water resources, are under serious threat(disturbances in … water resources planning. The paper also describes the World Bank's activities in protecting this sector. …
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