Carbon finance is an important tool for
mitigating climate change. A key challenge however is to
ensure that carbon finance operations combine development
dividends...
Addressing climate change is central to
the development and poverty reduction agenda. In its fourth
assessment (2007), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76429Date: January 1, 2013
Events like the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency (MIGA), Georgetown symposium demonstrate
that there is much to be learned through the sharing of
experiences...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75735Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Quintrell,Edith ;
Verheyen,Gero
In the two decades since they started
their transition from command to market economy, countries
in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) have gone through difficult
changes....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74884Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Deichmann, Uwe ;
Zhang, Fan
This report 'Turning the right
corner - ensuring development through a low carbon transport
sector' emphasizes that developing countries need to
transition to a low...
Type: PublicationReport#: 78086Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Block,Rachel Ilana ;
Kopp,Andreas Dietrich ;
Limi, Atsushi
The International Finance Corporation
(IFC) has advanced systems to gather, analyze, and apply
investment and advisory project information. It has made
strides in developing,...
Type: Annual Report,IEG EvaluationReport#: 78697Date: January 1, 2013Author:
Hatashima,Hiroyuki
The Central Asian countries are endowed
with significant energy and water resources. However, the
distribution of these resources is highly skewed across
individual...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 98804Date: December 31, 2012
This report is an initial effort to
develop information to identify and evaluate options for
natural gas use in Mozambique. The aim is to provide the
foundations for...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 80683Date: December 20, 2012Author:
Crook, Leonard
This case study, on the market for
cleaner and more efficient cooking in schools in Kenya and
Uganda illustrates that the economic framework outlined in
the main report...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 95821Date: December 17, 2012
The most important thing about the
Swedish contribution is that they have been very generous,
but also they have insisted that we marry a moral vision of
what is the...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101850Date: December 11, 2012Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Since the June, 2012 Oversight Committee
(OC) quarterly meeting, Swedish International Development
Agency (SIDA) has committed an additional 49,000,000 Swedish
Krona...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 78296Date: December 6, 2012
Chapter one introduces the paper and
briefly summarizes the main reform objectives and issues for
District Heating (DH) in China. Chapter two presents
relevant alternatives...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 82375Date: December 1, 2012
This note presents empirical data from
the 2005 - 06 Kenya integrated household budget survey on
the expenditure for lighting fuels and the adoption of solar
home systems...
The introduction of the water efficiency
program saw the company achieve savings of €250,000 on its
water costs in 2011. The implementation of company’s most
recent...
Independent Evaluation Group's
(IEG) strategic goal is to influence the World Bank
Group's ability to achieve development outcomes
globally and with its partner countries....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 74530Date: December 1, 2012
This report lays out the challenges and
proposes strategies for Sustainable Urban Energy and
Emissions Planning (SUEEP) and development. Fast-growing
cities in the East...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74788Date: December 1, 2012
The program provided a vast, dispersed
community of over half a million nomadic herders with access
to modern forms of electricity through portable Solar Home
Systems...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 72683Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Jayawardena, Migara S. ;
Rivera, A. Salvador ;
Ratnayake, Chrisantha
This paper analyzes the differential
impact of climate change policies on employment in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. In particular, the paper examines
(i) how vulnerable...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6294Date: December 1, 2012Author:
Oral Savonitto,Isil ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa ;
Zhang,Fan
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