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Madagascar Country Environmental Analysis : Taking Stock and Moving Forward
World Bank Group - 2013
The Madagascar Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) has the following objectives: (i) to facilitate the integration of … with the Government and development partners on environment-development linkages and priorities in Madagascar. The current … CEA is the first ever prepared for Madagascar. It also draws on a range of sector-based analytical work including a sector …
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Pakistan Strategic Country Environmental Assessment
World Bank Group - 2006
The urgency of addressing Pakistan's environmental problems has probably never been greater. Conservative estimates presented in this report suggest that environmental degradation costs the country at least 6 percent of GDP, or about Rs. 365 billion per year, and these costs fall...
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Mongolia : Southern Gobi Regional Environmental Assessment
World Bank - 2010
The primary objective of the Southern Gobi Regional Environmental Assessment (REA) is to provide guidance for sustainable management of environmental resources in the future development of the Southern Gobi Region (SGR), development that will be led by rapid expansion of mining. The REA defines...
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Monitoring Environmental Sustainability : Trends, Challenges and the Way Forward
Ruta, Giovanni - 2010
This report presents a concise review of the major environmental and natural resources issues at the global and national level over the coming two decades. The environmental issues reviewed include air pollution and deterioration of air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, water...
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Environmental Assessment
The Inspection Panel - 2017
The Inspection Panel, the World Bank's independent accountability mechanism, has released the third report in its Emerging Lessons Series. The latest report identifies lessons from Panel cases related to environmental assessment (EA) issues. The Panel is an impartial fact-finding body,...
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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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Policy Instruments for Water Pollution Control in Developing Countries
Olmstead, Sheila - 2019
This paper surveys the economic theory behind regulatory and other solutions to the stark ambient water pollution problems that exist in many developing countries, and what is known from the empirical economics literature about the effectiveness of these solutions
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Somalia Country Environmental Analysis : Diagnostic Study on Trends and Threats for Environmental and Natural Resources Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Somalia's natural capital is under substantial pressure from inappropriate land uses, conflict, and climate change. In its Ninth National Development Plan (Somalia NDP-9), the government of Somalia has identified vulnerability to environmental shocks as one of the six major causes of poverty....
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Mongolia : Environment and Natural Resource Management Socio-Economic Survey
Caparros, Alejandro - 2011
Mongolia has very significant natural resources and a large part of the population is dependent on them for their daily living. The impact of the state of the environment on the living standards of herders is obvious, but also Mongolians living in the capital Ulaanbaatar have learned that air...
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A Guide to Greenhouse Gas Benchmarking for Climate Policy Instruments
Partnership for Market Readiness - 2017
The past year has seen a significant increase in global momentum for climate action. As of April 2017, one hundred thirty-seven Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have already submitted their first nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as part of...
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