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This report summarizes the results for the transportation sector from a larger study, the low carbon study for Brazil, developed by the World Bank as part of its initiative to support the integrated efforts of Brazil to reduce global and national greenhouse gases emissions, while promoting...
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World Bank. The main objectives of the study were: to build or enhance Jordan s institutional capacity to make informed … policy decisions on CCS technology and applications; to assess the potential application of CCS technology in Jordan; and to … identify barriers-legal, regulatory, financial and others-to CCS activities in Jordan and recommend ways to address those …
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The report's objectives are i) to better understand the nature and magnitude of urban transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and ii) to articulate a strategy by which the World Bank and other agencies can assist national and city governments to address these problems. The first...
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In the second half of 2013, the World Bank secured grant funding from the Korea Green Growth Partnership for analytical support and technical assistance related to sustainable urban transport systems in select cities in Eastern Poland. Polish cities have followed international practice in...
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"Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open economy computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of global free trade and a successful completion of the Doha Agenda...
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It is now widely recognized that low-income countries in tropical and sub-tropical regions will be disproportionally affected by the adverse impacts of climate change. The combination of already fragile environments, dominance of climate-sensitive sectors in economic activity, and low autonomous...
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This assessment presents a synthesis of analysis to contribute to the definition of a lower carbon and greener growth path for Romania to 2050. The objective of Romania's green growth path is to implement mitigation actions and undertake needed adaptation while preserving growth and employment....
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There is an urgency to scale up the electrification of transport amongst the worldwide efforts towards energy transition and decarbonization. Electric mobility, or e-mobility,has become one of the rapidly developing opportunities to contribute to nations' climate and development goals, including...
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