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How Could Trade Measures Being Considered to Mitigate Climate Change Affect LDC Exports?

Jensen, Michael Friis - 2020

Export led growth remains a critical route out of poverty for many least developed countries (LDCs). But in a world … increasingly concerned about climate change and the contribution of international trade to global warming will measures being … considered to mitigate emissions hurt the export opportunities of LDCs? This paper reviews the trade-related instruments being …

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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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Scaling Up Investment in Climate Change Mitigation Activities : Interface with the World Bank's Carbon Partnership Facility

Ward, Murray - 2009

investments in zero and low carbon technologies and systems. The World Bank is now beginning to actively engage partners it …

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Geographic Hotspots for World Bank Action on Climate Change and Health

World Bank - 2017

integrated. As a result, actions to address climate change including World Bank Group investment and lending are missing …

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Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, and the patterns of land use change that are associated with it, have a high environmental footprint and contribute to climate change, as the sector accounts for about one-quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. However, improved land management practices...

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Costs of Adapting to Climate Change for Human Health in Developing Countries

Pandey, Kiran - 2010

This paper is one component of a global study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) in developing countries; the focus in this paper is human health. The main human health impacts of climate change are increased incidence of vector-borne disease (malaria), water-borne disease...

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Energy Sector Decarbonization in Vietnam : Background Note to the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR)

World Bank Group - 2022

'just transition' oriented policies and regulations to support the people, communities, and businesses. World Bank Group …

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Groundswell Part 2 : Acting on Internal Climate Migration

Clement, Viviane - 2021

This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Qualitative analyses of climate-related mobility in countries of the Mashreq and in Small...

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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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Emerging Emitters and Global Carbon Mitigation Efforts

Cui, Can - 2020

International efforts to avoid dangerous climate change have historically focused on reducing energy-related carbon-di-oxide (CO2) emissions from countries with the largest economies, including the EU and U.S., and/or the largest populations, such as, China and India. However, in recent years,...

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