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Impacts of Covid-19 on the World Bank's Forest Investment Program Portfolio

World Bank Group - 2023

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …

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2014 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance

World Bank Group - 2015

being provided in a world shaped by climate change. This is the fourth edition of the Joint Report on MDB Climate Finance …

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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality

World Bank Group - 2020

Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...

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Strategic Use of Climate Finance to Maximize Climate Action : A Guiding Framework

World Bank Group - 2018

Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement requires countries to finance transformational changes with significant investments in both mitigation and resilience-building. International public climate finance with some degree of concessionality (i.e., climate finance) makes it possible to provide...

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Low Carbon Cities : Exploring New Crediting Approaches to Deliver Carbon and Climate Finance

World Bank Group - 2018

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 by 50 percent by 2050 if current trends continue. In 2015, world leaders …

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Carbon Markets Under the Kyoto Protocol : Lessons Learned for Building an International Carbon Market Under the Paris Agreement

World Bank Group - 2018

This working paper commissioned by the World Bank Carbon Markets and Innovation Practice (GCCMI) critically examines …

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Climate Auctions : A Market-Based Approach to National Climate Action

World Bank Group - 2019

Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation (PAF), the World Bank developed an innovative financial … are most effective. The policy brief was produced by staff of the World Bank with external contributions from the Rocky …

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Transformative Climate Finance : A New Approach for Climate Finance to Achieve Low-Carbon Resilient Development in Developing Countries

World Bank Group - 2020

This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. The report identifies eight sets of levers to drive climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policy, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology...

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Somalia Economic Update, June 2020 : Impact of COVID-19 - Policies to Manage the Crisis and Strengthen Economic Recovery

World Bank Group - 2020

Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Somalia's economy was on an upward trajectory, recovering from the 2016/17 drought. The economy grew at an estimated rate of 2.9 percent in 2019, on par with population growth, and was projected to grow at 3.2 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has...

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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank's Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds

World Bank Group - 2020

This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …

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