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Toward a Low-Carbon Economy : Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Review
World Bank - 2014
Renewable energy and energy efficiency projects continue to perform strongly in the World Bank Group (WBG) energy portfolio and are increasingly being mainstreamed in the WBG's energy lending. In fiscal 2007 a total of US$1,433 million supported 63 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects...
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Energy Sector Decarbonization in Vietnam : Background Note to the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR)
World Bank - 2022
Vietnam has made remarkable economic progress over the past 30 years; however, growth was supported by increasing reliance on coal-based energy. The energy sector would continue the expansion of coal-based energy with the significant increase in the installed capacity of coal power plants under...
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Climate change and the World Bank Group : phase II, the challenge of low-carbon development
Chomitz, Kenneth M. - 2011
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Beyond mitigation : potential options for counter-balancing the climatic and environmental consequences of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases
MacCracken, Michael C. - 2009
"Global climate change is occurring at an accelerating pace, and the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are forcing climate change continue to increase. Given the present pace of international actions, it seems unlikely that atmospheric composition can be stabilized at a level that will...
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Romania Climate Change and Low Carbon Green Growth Program
World Bank - 2013
, transport, urban, water, agriculture, and forestry, which were pre-identified by both the Government of Romania and the World …
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Defining Results-Based Climate Finance, Voluntary Carbon Markets and Compliance Carbon Markets
World Bank - 2022
Under the Kyoto Protocol, compliance carbon markets (CCM) were primarily in the form of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI). In 2015, the Paris Agreement introduced a new bottom-up approach to address climate change. Under the Paris Agreement, Parties set...
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Spearheading Vietnam's Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice
World Bank - 2022
-food context. However, because rice production is so important to the country and to emission reductions in agriculture, this …
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China in Regional Trade Agreements : Environment Provisions
World Bank - 2012
; 2) China may want to use the opportunity of these negotiations to: (a) further discipline its state-owned enterprises … more balanced and sustainable development and taking into account China's high reliance on trade, it may be increasingly in … China's interest to pro-actively engage its partners on environmental issues in its regional trade agreement (RTA …
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Strengthening China's Environmental Protection Administrative System : Analysis and Recommendations
World Bank - 2013
. Without an effective MEP, the other elements necessary for China's environmentally sustainable development will not be able to …
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Energy Sector : MyanmarvInfrastructure Monitoring
World Bank - 2022
Myanmar's energy sector has been severely affected by the dual shocks of the February 2021 coup and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Developments in the energy sector after the coup have undermined nascent energy sector reforms over the last few years, including reforms that led to...
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