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High and Dry : Climate Change, Water, and the Economy

World Bank Group - 2016

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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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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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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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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Green Growth and Climate Change in Uzbekistan Policy Dialogue Series : A Compendium of Proceedings

World Bank Group - 2022

Over the last few decades, Uzbekistan's remarkable economic growth has been largely fueled by resource extraction and the mining and manufacturing sectors of the economy. Yet, this progress has come at a high price. The country's economy is now the fifth most intensive in terms of greenhouse gas...

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Spearheading Vietnam's Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice

World Bank Group - 2022

This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so...

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Institutional Frameworks in Sucessful Water Markets. Brazil, Spain, and Colorado.

Marino, M.; Kemper, K.E. - World Bank Group - 1999

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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Fostering Riparian Cooperation in International River Basins.

Kirmany, S; Le Moigne, G - World Bank Group - 1996

Many developing countries sharing water resources of international river basins are facing serious problems in meeting …

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African Water Resources; Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development.

Sharma, N.P.; Damhaug, T.; Gilgan-Hunt, E.; Grey, D.; … - World Bank Group - 1996

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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