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The Development, Climate, and Nature Crisis : Solutions to End Poverty on a Livable Planet - Insights from World Bank Country Climate and Development Reports covering 42 economies
World Bank Group - 2023
The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature- and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world's tropical forests, but the …
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Results-Based Climate Finance in Practice : Delivering Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Development
World Bank Group - 2017
Results-based financing is a well-established financing modality in the health and education sectors but it is still in an early stage of deployment in the area of climate change. This report reviews 74 results-based climate financing (RBCF) programs implemented in developing countries with an...
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Uganda Economic Update, 17th Edition, June 2021 : From Crisis to Green Resilient Growth - Investing in Sustainable Land Management and Climate Smart Agriculture
World Bank Group - 2021
The Ugandan economy is recovering from a sharp contraction due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) shock that had slowed growth to its lowest pace in over three decades. Real GDP growth is estimated to reach above 3 percent during FY21, following the modest recovery of 0.7 percent in the first half of...
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Lesotho Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan : Opportunities for Transitioning to More Productive, Climate-Resilient, and Low Carbon Agriculture
World Bank Group - 2019
, and extreme temperatures occurring more frequently. In response, the Government of Lesotho is collaborating with the World …
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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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Igniting Climate Entrepreneurship in Morocco : Findings from the Climate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2017
Climate-smart development is a rapidly growing area in Morocco, and indeed much of the world. It has simultaneously … energy costs, creating jobs, and increasing economic opportunity. A World Bank Group (WBG) team, together with the support of …
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Green Growth and Climate Change in Uzbekistan Policy Dialogue Series : A Compendium of Proceedings
World Bank Group - 2022
now the fifth most intensive in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world and the most intensive in Europe and … the Republic of Uzbekistan (MEDPR), The World Bank, and the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) jointly … held a series of public policy dialogues on green growth and climate change. The World Bank Group remains committed to …
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Spearheading Vietnam's Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice
World Bank Group - 2022
This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so...
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Sustainable Cities : Urban Areas and Climate Change in Sierra Leone
World Bank Group - 2023
Sierra Leone is highly vulnerable to natural hazards whose impacts are exacerbated by unplanned rapid urbanization. The main victims of climate change risks and impacts in urban Sierra Leone are the urban poor who also bear the brunt of multiple crises such as Ebola and Coronavirus Disease...
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Dominican Republic Country Climate and Development Report
World Bank Group - 2023
The Dominican Republic has made significant progress in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty, but it still faces challenges to achieve inclusive and equitable development, increase productivity, and improve the competitiveness and sustainability of primary sectors like agriculture,...
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