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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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The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be … large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental … systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where the demand for water rises …
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This report explores priorities and challenges faced by Georgia to promote green transition and support its businesses to reduce their emissions through energy efficiency. The report stresses the need for improved incentives and opportunities for business investments in energy efficiency and...
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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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In 2001, FYR Macedonia embarked on a new education policy agenda. One of the goals of this agenda was to improve the country's student assessment system. In order to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of its existing assessment system, FYR Macedonia decided to benchmark...
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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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This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note...
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degradation o f water quality in Dhaka, and (3) the decline of capture fisheries. The economic losses associated with these three …
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environmental conditions on human health, the economy, and natural ecosystems: Deteriorating trends in water, sanitation, and waste … generation than to providing incentives for environmentally responsible behavior; quality and quantity of water resources …; transboundary water and global environmental issues; and lack of sustainable forest management. The report recommends improving …
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