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The Economic Case for Nature : A Global Earth-Economy Model to Assess Development Policy Pathways
Johnson, Justin Andrew - 2021
The Economic Case for Nature is part of a series of papers by the World Bank that lays out the economic rationale for …
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The Global Health Cost of Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution
World Bank Group - 2020
; 'household air pollution' refers to contamination of indoor air. Ambient (or outdoor) air pollution is the world's leading …
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Tools and Resources to Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade
World Bank Group - 2018
The Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) has reached an unprecedented scale, in part due to increasing demand from consumers. It is widely recognized that this criminality threatens peace, security, livelihoods, and biodiversity. The illegal trafficking in protected fauna and flora generates significant...
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Strategic Use of Climate Finance to Maximize Climate Action : A Guiding Framework
World Bank Group - 2018
Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement requires countries to finance transformational changes with significant investments in both mitigation and resilience-building. International public climate finance with some degree of concessionality (i.e., climate finance) makes it possible to provide...
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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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Climate Change in APEC : Assessing Risks, Preparing Financial Markets, and Mobilizing Institutional Investors
World Bank Group - 2020
The World Bank Group prepared this report, Climate Change in APEC: Assessing Risks, Preparing Financial Markets, and …
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Invention and Global Diffusion of Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation : A Patent Analysis
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2020
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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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Lao Biodiversity : A Priority for Resilient Green Growth
World Bank Group - 2020
The Lao PDR sits at the intersection of four critical ecoregions and is home to some of the world's biologically … protected areas, and expansion of agriculture and settlements. This World Bank report outlines key challenges and priority …
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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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