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change, biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation. It also describes the GEF's strategic priorities for SIDS … economic and social development. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) hopes this report will contribute to discussions at the …
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activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the …
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naturally includes the environmental impacts on forests, such as degradation, bio-diversity loss, and deforestation as well as …
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nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank has clearly diminished its …
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impact of SHS on households, and (b) to evaluate the present institutional structure and financing mechanisms in place …, including salient features of system operation, as well as program delivery and financing. Chapter three reviews the role of …
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capital and the environment can create jobs and make development more inclusive and sustainable, while highlighting how social …
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identify and fill the financing gap. This analytical framework: (a) differentiates and illustrates tradeoffs among local … incremental costs of RE may have very different beneficiaries); and (c) captures externalities and compares (where possible …
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The prototype carbon fund (PCF) is a public-private partnership whose mission is to pioneer a market for project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions within the framework of the Kyoto protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). PCF seeks to show how...
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China is the second largest energy consumer in the world and the largest producer and consumer of coal. Owing to its large coal resources, it is and will remain in the foreseeable future largely energy self-sufficient, although crude oil imports have steadily increased since 1993. In just 17...
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a renewed Bank commitment to the environment, culminating in a new 2001 Bank environmental strategy. For the evaluation … period there were four policies against which environmental performance can be judged: mainstreaming the environment …; enforcing environmental safeguards; implementing a global agenda; and environmental stewardship. The environment and social …
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