The Trung Son dam is a medium-sized
hydropower dam (260 megawatts) that was developed with the
aim of achieving social and environmental sustainability.
Experience gained...
Type: ReportReport#: 152332Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Nguyen,Nghi Quy ;
Lenihan,Martin Henry ;
Saint-Pierre,Claude ;
Phuong,Nguyen Thi Minh ;
Dan,Phan Huyen
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB)
Gazetted Forests Participatory Management Project for REDD+
aims to address two pressing developmental objectives in
Burkina Faso...
This study on Securing Forest Tenure
Rights for Rural Development aims to contribute to efforts
worldwide to reduce poverty and strengthensustainable
management in forest...
Type: ReportReport#: 152337Date: August 31, 2020Author:
Segura Warnholtz,Gerardo ;
Fernandez,Mercedes ;
Smyle,James W. ;
Springer,Jenny
This report is a compendium of two
separate reports. Section I evaluates opportunities and
risks of forest tenure devolution enshrined in Zambia’s
legal framework to...
This report provides a brief overview of
the role of energy storage against the background of current
trends in power systems with a particular emphasis on
developing...
In developing countries, battery storage
is becoming a viable way to increase system flexibility and
enable more integration of variable renewable energy.
Battery energy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153065Date: August 1, 2020
The Sustainable Land and Water
Management Project (SLWMP) in Northern Ghana provides an
opportunity to estimate the effect of soil and water
conserving technology and...
This technical note is aimed primarily
at professionals in national meteorological and hydrological
services (NMHSs), who are trying to improve the quality and
relevance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149927Date: July 8, 2020Author:
Rogers,David ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Suwa,Makoto
The second annual South Asia Hydromet
Forum was held in Kathmandu on November 19 to 21, 2019. All
eight nations of South Asia and neighboring Myanmar sent
meteorologists,...
Scaling up resilient infrastructure
project for Serbia had the goal to support the improvement
of institutional capacities in disaster risk reduction, and
to develop...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157109Date: June 26, 2020
Geothermal power production may result
in significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions
from geothermal power production, mostly in the form of CO2,
are...
The objective of this report is to
provide a review of and recommendations for improving the
agriculture and food security risk financing framework in
the Southern Africa...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001493Date: June 23, 2020
This policy note is provided as an
output under the World Bank’s Regional Advisory Service for
Southern Africa, ‘Developing a Regional Risk Financing
Framework for Agriculture...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001748Date: June 23, 2020Author:
Lung,Felix Maximilian Otto ;
Stefan,Cristina ;
Arias Carballo,Diego ;
Holm-Nielsen,Niels B. ;
Maher,Barry Patrick
Having a common framework for early
action to cope with complex disasters can make it easier for
authorities and other stakeholders, including populations at
risk, to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149839Date: June 19, 2020Author:
Rogers,David ;
Anderson Berry,Linda Jennette ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Fleming,Gerald J ;
Gitay,Habiba ;
Kahandawa,Suranga Sooriya Kumara ;
Md Kootval,Haleh Kootval ;
Staudinger,Michael ;
Suwa,Makoto ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Wang,Weibing
The Forest Tenure Assessment Tool (FTAT)
is an integrated set of methodologies for assessing why
securing forest tenure is important and how to strengthen
forest tenure...
The MENA region (Middle East & North
Africa) has some of the world's best solar energy
resources. These will last longer than its oil and gas
reserves, and could become...
The MENA region (Middle East & North
Africa) has some of the world's best solar energy
resources. These will last longer than its oil and gas
reserves, and could become...
The MENA region (Middle East & North
Africa) has some of the world's best solar energy
resources. These will last longer than its oil and gas
reserves, and could become...
The MENA region (Middle East & North
Africa) has some of the world's best solar energy
resources. These will last longer than its oil and gas
reserves, and could become...
The MENA region (Middle East & North
Africa) has some of the world's best solar energy
resources. These will last longer than its oil and gas
reserves, and could become...
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