A lot of building owners and facilities
managers say they are interested in cutting their
building's energy costs. But they are not always
willing to make the sometimes...
This paper develops a global model of
climate policy, focusing on the choice between tax and
cap-and-trade solutions. The analysis assumes that the world
can be split...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5171Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Strand, Jon
The objective of the Giza North 2x750
Mega-Watt electrical (MWe) Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Power
Project is to assist the Government of Egypt to improve the
security...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 52961Date: January 1, 2010
Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) provides advice to countries seeking energy
solutions in this complex and rapidly changing terrain. It
provides methodologies...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 63221Date: January 1, 2010
Emerging Europe and Central Asia, the
region made up of the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS), is a major...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 53588Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Karni, Barbara
Doing Business in Zanzibar 2010 is a new
subnational report of the Doing Business series on the
sub-Saharan African region, following the subnational Doing
Business...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74678Date: January 1, 2010
Every four years the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) is replenished by its donors. Each
replenishment process has been informed by independent
overall performance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 65347Date: January 1, 2010
In many developing countries with large
rural populations and low rural electrification rates, most
community health and education facilities lack access to
electricity....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63225Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Finucane, Jim ;
De Villiers Purcell,Christopher John
Nitol Solar Ltd., a Russian chemicals
company, was a flagging, state-owned enterprise before three
entrepreneurs bought the firm in 2003 and made its chemical
and silicon-gas...
The Xinao Group, a leading private
energy concern in China, utilizes a new production process
that converts coal into dimethyl ether (DME), a clean liquid
fuel. The...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is
a unique partnership among 181 countries, international
institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the
private...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 55037Date: January 1, 2010
The Global Partnership on Output-Based
Aid (GPOBA) has recently completed a project that made
35,000 new natural gas connections to poor households in
Colombia's Caribbean...
Type: BriefReport#: 54850Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Mandri-Perrott, Cledan
This paper discusses the development of
appropriate private sector participation (PSP) to optimize
the provision of air transport infrastructure (ATI). It is
aimed primarily...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116466Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Allen Hamilton,Booz ;
Zakir Hussain, Mustafa (Editor)
This report synthesizes the findings for
the energy sector of a broader study, the Brazil low carbon
study, which was undertaken by the World Bank in its
initiative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59358Date: January 1, 2010Author:
De Gouvello,Christophe ;
Schaeffer, Roberto ;
Szklo, Alexandre
The primary objective of the Southern
Gobi Regional Environmental Assessment (REA) is to provide
guidance for sustainable management of environmental
resources in the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59703Date: January 1, 2010
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
climate change newsletter include the following headings:
COP 15 or Copenhagen climate change summit; Copenhagen key
to climate...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 53086Date: January 1, 2010
Indonesia is implementing the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the global
initiative for oil, gas and minerals revenue transparency.
Under the EITI,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 72823Date: January 1, 2010
This Yemen quarterly economic update
includes the following headings: recent economic
developments; macroeconomic developments; structural reforms
and policies outlook;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59534Date: January 1, 2010
The three large South Asian countries
(India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), which are the focus of
this report, have drawn up large power capacity addition
plans to provide...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 56849Date: January 1, 2010
Urbanization and climate change will
define much of the 21st century. Urbanization leads to
improvement in standards of living, and through the
increased density and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76917Date: January 1, 2010
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