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Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Sector
World Bank Group - 2022
India, recognizing the complex challenges of rising temperatures, was one of the first countries in the world to … develop a comprehensive Cooling Action Plan in 2019. The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) sets out a long-term vision of …-resilient economic growth. To help India achieve the ICAP's bold vision while identifying entry points for World Bank sectoral engagement …
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Air Quality Management in Poland
World Bank Group - 2019
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Kosovo : A Future of Green Transport and Clean Air
World Bank Group - 2019
The Western Balkans is home to the most polluting power plants in Europe, and its transport and energy infrastructure require updates. Not surprisingly, countries such as Kosovo, are suffering from severe urban air pollution and traffic congestion as a result of high dependence on fossil fuels...
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Supporting the Implementation of Residential Heating Measures in Bulgaria's National Air Quality Improvement Program and National Air Pollution Control Program
World Bank Group - 2020
These programs have been prepared by the Government of Bulgaria (GoB) with technical support by the World Bank. In the course of the work it became clear that national and local institutions would face multi- faceted challenges in implementing the NAQIP and NAPCP, relating mainly to overcoming...
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Striving for Clean Air : Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia
World Bank Group - 2022
Nine out of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in South Asia. South Asians are exposed to extremely unhealthy levels of ambient air pollution, especially in densely populated, poor locations. The World Health Organization's (WHO) Air Quality Guideline recommends that...
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Clean Air and Cool Planet, Volume II : Integrated Air Quality Management and Greenhouse Gas Reduction for Almaty and Nur-Sultan
World Bank Group - 2022
This study delivers evidence of the main causes of premature deaths from air pollution in Almaty and Nur-Sultan, two major cities in Kazakhstan, and offers guidance on cost-effective solutions to prevent them while making the cities better prepared for a low-carbon future. The report provides...
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Striving for Clean Air : Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia
World Bank Group - 2023
South Asia is home to 9 of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution. Concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in some of the region's most densely populated and poor areas are up to 20 times higher than what the World Health Organization considers healthy (5 micrograms per...
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Air Quality Management in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2023
The Air Quality Management (AQM) system in Tajikistan needs strengthening in its key policy and institutional as well as technical aspects to reduce health impacts of air pollution in the most polluted airsheds (Dushanbe and other urban centers). The World Bank's first engagement to strengthen...
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Ukraine Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Regulatory Review
World Bank Group - 2017
This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. The review presents an...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Public Research Institutions : Fostering Knowledge Linkages and Transferring Technology in Malaysia
World Bank Group - 2020
The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1]. While the GDP growth rate has proven resilient in recent years, declining oil and gas output, coupled with economic shocks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, havedented...
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