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Carbon Pricing for Climate Action
World Bank Group - 2021
Carbon prices are needed to incorporate climate change costs into economic decision making. Carbon pricing should be included as part of a broader arsenal of tools to achieve domestic climate targets, but it is not a silver bullet: other policy instruments and investments (for example, public...
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Guide to Communicating Carbon Pricing
World Bank Group - 2018
Stakeholder and public support are critical for an enduring and robust carbon pricing policy. How jurisdictions communicate their carbon pricing policy plays a key role in creating and maintaining that support. Drawing on case studies, research and best practice, the report provides guidance on...
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Using Carbon Revenues
World Bank Group - 2019
Carbon pricing is increasingly recognized as an important source of government revenue. Carbon revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective climate mitigation, industrial competitiveness and other economic and development objectives. How carbon revenues are used and how these uses are...
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Thailand Economic Monitor, December 2023 - Thailand's Pathway to Carbon Neutrality : The Role of Carbon Pricing
World Bank Group - 2024
The twin shocks of the pandemic and weak global trade has particularly impacted Thailand due to the country's position as a trade and tourism hub. Thailand's tourism arrivals reached only 75 percent of pre-pandemic levels in September despite the ongoing growth in global services trade. Visitor...
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Low Carbon Cities : Exploring New Crediting Approaches to Deliver Carbon and Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2018
By 2050, two-thirds of the planet's population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percentof the 2.5 billion new 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...
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Insights and Experiences from the BioCarbon Fund Emission Reductions Projects in the Land-Use Sector : An Overview
World Bank Group - 2020
Housed within the climate funds management unit (SCCFM) of the climate change group (CCG) in the World Bank, the biocarbon fund (BioCF), a public-private initiative, has pioneered results-based payments for emission reductions (ERs) from the land-use sector. The challenges can be daunting:...
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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook
World Bank Group - 2016
This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency program in a country on behalf of the...
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North Macedonia : Environmental Tax Reform Options and Outcomes
World Bank Group - 2021
This paper aims to contribute to the Government's plans by highlighting key policy options for reforming the tax system to address environmental concerns. It does this through firstly assessing the existing tax system to understand the incentives and measures in place in relation to...
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Options for a Carbon Tax in Bangladesh
World Bank Group - 2018
Carbon taxes can be win-win for Bangladesh. They can help show the world that Bangladesh is serious about climate … the additional resources can be used to reduce taxes on labor or firms. Carbon taxes are much simpler to implement than … most other taxes and most fuel costs would increase by only a few Taka per liter. At the same time, implementation needs to …
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Environmental Tax Reform in North Macedonia : Improving Environmental and Social Outcomes from Fuel Use
World Bank Group - 2020
North Macedonia continues to improve its environmental performance and the efficacy of its environmental regulation. As part of this effort, the World Bank is working with the government of North Macedonia on environmental tax reform. The government is interested in utilizing the tax system to...
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