The international aviation and maritime
sectors today enjoy relatively favorable tax treatment, as
their fuels are not taxed and the sectors are not subject to
any value-added...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5950Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Keen, Michael ;
Parry,Ian W.H. ;
Strand,Jon
This paper provides an analytical
discussion of several interconnected resource allocation
problems from under-pricing of electricity used by farmers
for groundwater...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5955Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Strand,Jon
This year's edition of the little
green data book includes a focus story on oceans and its
ecosystem services, as well as estimates of global marine
fisheries wealth...
Type: World Development IndicatorsReport#: 68967Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Cui, Liu ;
Eshragh-Tabary, Mahyar ;
Kristensen, Peter ;
Lange, Glenn-Marie ;
Mealey, Elisabeth ;
Naikal, Esther ;
Narain, Urvashi ;
Prince, William ;
Tariku, Jomo ;
Virdin, John
Cities currently account for about
two-thirds of the world's annual energy consumption and
about 70 percent of the world's Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emissions. In the coming...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74789Date: January 1, 2012
The Ethiopia Kenya Power Systems
Interconnection Project was conceived in 2006 when Ethiopia
and Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding that agreed
that a power...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 69737Date: January 1, 2012
Climate Friendly Technologies (CFT)
reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by reducing
the carbon content of economic activity. Climate change due
to greenhouse...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56564Date: January 1, 2012
This paper provides a primer on the
fiscal implications of climate change, in particular the
policies for responding to it. Many of the complicated
challenges that arise...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5956Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Jones,Benjamin ;
Keen, Michael ;
Strand,Jon
New private activity in infrastructure
in developing countries declined in the first semester of
2011, but remained strong and continued to be highly
selective, according...
Mitigating climate change while
addressing development needs will involve a massive scale-up
of investments in Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy
Efficiency (EE). Most...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73925Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Mani, Muthukumara
This guide details considerations for
planning a meeting or event in line with the World Bank
Group's commitment to minimize the environmental
impacts of how we run...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69010Date: January 1, 2012
The report is focused on showing a wide
range and variety of ways in which Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions could play a
transformative role,...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 70436Date: January 1, 2012
Rapid urban growth in developing
countries has created an unprecedented demand for energy
services. Cities face the enormous challenge of improving
energy access to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69679Date: January 1, 2012
This brief talks about lending World
Bank bonds to Japan. 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the
first public bond issue by the International Bank for
Reconstruction...
Type: BriefReport#: 120187Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Arima,Yoshiyuki ;
Bennett,Michael S. ;
Dore,Andrea
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD), with the support of a group of Russian and
international consultants...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114444Date: January 1, 2012
This newsletter includes the following
headings: in focus; lighting Africa news; stories from the
field; associate news; off-grid lighting sector news; and
links and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 115078Date: January 1, 2012
Kosovo's energy and mining sectors
were once the mainstays of its economy. However, a decade of
ethnic conflict left this industry in a dire state, and in a
great need...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 71766Date: January 1, 2012
The Malaysia Comprehensive Development
Partnership - Environment (CDP-E) program was established as
a technical assistance activity in August 2004. This report
summarizes...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 68960Date: January 1, 2012
This paper provides an overview of the
Trung Son hydropower project preparation experience and
highlights the innovative features of the project, primarily
focusing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69418Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Gencer,Defne ;
Spencer,Richard Jeremy
In 2011, the Evaluation office of the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) conducted two country
portfolio studies in El Salvador and Jamaica, performed in
collaboration...
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