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The Twenty-sixth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held in early November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, at which Vietnam's Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, pledged once again that Vietnam would be part of the global climate change solution. The country aims to increase the share...
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-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note...
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underpin the development of future World Bank operations in the environment sector; and (iii) to serve as an initial analysis … wide analysis undertaken by the World Bank in 2003, an environment sector policy note prepared by the World Bank in 2010 … carried out by the World Bank in related sectors including governance analyses of the mining and forestry sectors, a national …
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currently receiving insufficient attention given their relative significance: (1) in door and urban air pollution, (2) the …
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pollution; inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene; natural disasters (such as flooding and landslides); and land …
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The Kenya Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) presents recent findings and trends on key environmental challenges and opportunities. The CEA identifies a set of recommendations that are necessary to both strengthen the country's environmental management capabilities and ensure that...
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Rural livelihoods in Tajikistan heavily rely on natural resources and the agriculture sector. A large proportion of the rural population depends on agriculture, and weather-related calamities are exerting increasing pressure on natural resources and agricultural sectors, the major contributors...
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several … improved the management of solid and hazardous waste and wastewater, and controlled pollution related to a large variety of … growth, and green development require that pollution management be addressed within a new context …
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In response to a request from the Government of Vietnam, this World Bank study was conducted from July 2020 to April …, and at coastal sites to determine the extent of plastic pollution, and the top 10 polluting items; remote sensing and net …
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