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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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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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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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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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How to finance the infrastructure and service of bulk water supply, and how to use pricing to achieve efficient … allocation and use of water as a resource are the central issues that emerge from discussions about bulk water pricing …. Efficiency will lead to allocating water resources better, reducing water losses caused by poor maintenance of the supply systems …
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Groudwater is of major importance in providing mains water supply, and is intensively exploited for private, domestic …
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The water sector has undergone remarkable changes in recent years. While past achievements were associated mainly with … investment in new physical structures, recent developments in the water sector are associated to a greater extent with improved … change and institution-performance interactions in the water sector. …
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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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