This paper deals with global mitigation
strategy. More specifically the main purpose is to address
the question of whether growth in the developing world is
consistent...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57763Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Spence, Michael
Addressing climate change is a key
priority for International Finance Corporation (IFC). In
2009, IFC supported the Coco Ocean Resort & Spa, a five
star resort in The...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
was established to assist in the protection of the global
environment and promote environmentally sound and
sustainable economic...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48240Date: January 1, 2009
Lao People's Democratic Republic
(PDR) is making effort to integrate itself into the regional
and international economy. It is seeking membership in the
World Trade...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: 48802Date: January 1, 2009
The municipality of Milan has about
1,305,000 inhabitants, of which less than 8 percent live
downtown. It is the second largest city in Italy, located in
the plains...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47802Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
Makati City is one of the constituent
cities of metro Manila, Philippines. Metro Manila consists
of 16 cities and the municipality of Manila. Makati City is
located...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47805Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
The millennium ecosystem assessment has
demonstrated that humans are already undermining or even
threatening the capacity of many of the world's
terrestrial ecosystems...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52065Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Haberl, H. ;
Erb, K.-H. ;
V. Gaube, Krausmann ;
Gingrich, S. ;
Plutzar, C
Climate change threatens all countries.
Yet developing countries everywhere, from Asia to Africa to
Latin America, will be disproportionately affected by the
climate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51682Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Martinant De Preneuf,Flore ;
Kitt,Florian
The World Bank Group (WBG) works with
developing country partners and provides them customized
demand-driven support through its various instruments, from
financing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51499Date: January 1, 2009
The hallmark of the energy sector
management assistance program (ESMAP) is the promotion and
support of innovation and forward thinking in the energy
sector. In these...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 48642Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Araya,Marjorie K. ;
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Boulanger,Susan
This report and the associated
appendices and Policy Summary represent the principle
documented outputs of a 15 month long process of analysis
and consultation. The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59889Date: January 1, 2009
A global financial and economic crisis
of unprecedented dimensions was unfolding at the time of
this writing. The urgency, immediacy, and staggering
magnitude of the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 64826Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Torre, Augusto de la ;
Fajnzylber, Pablo ;
Nash, John
Finland-based Botnia, a leading forest
products company and International Finance Corporation (IFC)
client, has a better handle on the carbon footprint of its
Uruguay...
Bangladesh suffers from significant
shortages of power generation capacity and natural gas.
Addressing these problems will require concerted action to
improve services,...
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE)
assesses the outcomes of the World Bank program in Georgia
from 1993 to 2007. The CAE identifies three sub-periods
(1993–97,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 104937Date: January 1, 2009
A new market in carbon has grown up over
the last few years, and some small communities are
benefiting from it. In Nepal, households in remote rural
areas are being...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 57500Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Chambwera, Muyeye ;
Corral, Thais ;
Grieg-Gran, Maryanne ;
Kantor, Barry
As concern increases over the impacts of
climate change, policymakers are seeking cost effective ways
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which do not undermine
the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 57501Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Chambwera, Muyeye ;
Corral, Thais ;
Grieg-Gran, Maryanne ;
Kantor, Barry
Climate change threatens to derail
development, even as development pumps ever-greater
quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already
polluted with two centuries...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 53865Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Chomitz, Kenneth;
Six emerging economies, including
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa,
are proactively seeking to identify opportunities and
related financial, technical,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52124Date: January 1, 2009
During the 90s, most countries in Latin
America and the Caribbean Region (LCR) supported by the
World Bank, implemented a market-oriented reform in the
energy sector...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52121Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Byer, Trevor ;
Crousillat, Enrique ;
Dussan, Manuel
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