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The Landscape for Institutional Investing in 2018 : Perspectives of Institutional Investors, An Input into the Investor Forum
World Bank Group - 2018
Argentina, this year's chair of the G20, and co-organized with the World Bank Group. The Forum will bring together leaders from … opportunity. As part of preparing for the Forum, the World Bank Group (WBG) conducted semi-structured interviews with senior …
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Housing Finance : Investment Opportunities for Pension Funds
World Bank Group - 2018
The global housing deficit in both developed and developing countries is increasing - driven by demographic and other mega-trends including urbanization and income inequality. Global pension fund assets, on the other hand, are both growing and increasingly looking for long-term, productive...
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Carbon Asset Development Process
World Bank Group - 2021
The Paris Agreement provides a framework for all countries - both developed and developing - to voluntarily adopt individual targets, elaborated in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This effectively introduces commitments on the country in the sectors covered by their NDCs....
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Greenhouse Gases from Reservoirs Caused by Biogeochemical Processes
World Bank Group - 2017
of this note is therefore to provide guidance to World Bank Group (WBG) staff on how to assess GHGs from reservoirs in …
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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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Chongqing 2035 : A Green and Low-Carbon Growth Strategy to Decouple Economic Growth from Resource Use
World Bank Group - 2019
Chongqing is at a crossroads where its GDP per capita will reach a level at which cities typically decouple economic growth from energy and resource use, as well as associated carbon emissions and pollution. However, decoupling does not happen automatically. It requires cities to adopt green...
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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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Networked Carbon Markets : Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol
World Bank Group - 2016
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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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