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Report on the Simulation of Low Carbon Green Growth Policies, including the Results of Impact Assessment and Final Policy Recommendations
World Bank - 2015
only modest costs to growth and employment, European Union (EU) emissions trading for energy-intensive sectors sets a …
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Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2009 Annual Review : Banking on Biodiversity
World Bank - 2012
This issue of environment matters celebrates the 2010 international year of biodiversity and describes some of the … challenges and opportunities in protecting biodiversity for the benefit of humankind. From the world's highest mountain ranges to … Ecosystem Assessment showed, biodiversity is under severe threat, as ecosystems are being lost and degraded more rapidly and …
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Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Adaptation : Nature-based Solutions from the World Bank Portfolio
World Bank - 2012
Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine the drive for sustainable development. Since the industrial revolution, the mean surface temperature of earth has increased an average of 1degree celsius per century due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the...
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Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Adaptation : Nature-Based Solutions from the World Bank Portfolio
World Bank - 2012
Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine the drive for sustainable development. Since the industrial revolution, the mean surface temperature of earth has increased an average of 1degree celsius per century due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552975
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Policy and Investment Priorities to Reduce Environmental Degradation of the lake Nicaragua Watershed (Cocibolca) : Addressing Key Environmental Challenges - Study 2
World Bank - 2013
Globally, an estimated 24 percent of the disease burden (healthy life years lost) and an estimated 23 percent of all deaths (premature mortality) are attributable to environmental risks (World Health Organization, or WHO 2006). The burden of disease is unequally shared, with the children and the...
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Policy and Investment Priorities to Reduce Environmental Degradation of the Lake Nicaragua Watershed (Cocibolca) : Addressing Key Environmental Challenges
World Bank - 2014
the identification of erosion hotspots. The Lake Cocibolca watershed is a globally unique cradle of biodiversity with …
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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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Five years after Rio : innovations in environmental policy
1997
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