In this paper, the authors seek to
answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi:
(1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the
energy needs...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4068Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Baccini,Alessandro ;
Bandyopadhyay,Sushenjit ;
Shyamsundar,Priya
This profile documents the ethnically,
culturally, and socially diverse population that makes up
Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. It points out that
infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 41907Date: November 1, 2006
Many African countries have thin energy
and industrial sectors with limited opportunities to reduce
carbon emissions, certainly relative to countries such as
China and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38618Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Ambrosi,Philippe ;
Capoor,Karan
Climate change is a very serious
environmental challenge that affects prospects for
sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution,
the mean surface temperature...
Type: BriefReport#: 38740Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Vergara,Walter
The objective of this component of the
Joint Evaluation of the GEF Activity Cycle and Modalities is
to provide a factual overview of the programming processes
in the...
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 39186Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Balbosa, Carmencita ;
Hettige,Hemamala S. ;
Swartzendruber,John Frederick ;
Tokle,Siv Elin
The Survey was broadly disseminated
among GEF stakeholders electronically. The Joint Evaluation
Management Group elaborated a strategy for distributing the
survey, using...
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 39187Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Rodrigues De Aquino,Andre ;
Brann,Joshua E. ;
Spilsbury, Michael ;
Tokle,Siv Elin
This paper aims to help further the
understanding on why and how the involvement of the
Executing Agencies (ExAs) in the GEF Partnership came to be,
the process that...
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 39188Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Rodrigues De Aquino,Andre ;
Lyasse,Omar
The joint evaluation consists of eight
components with the purpose of this component is to review
completed and on-going evaluative work on cycle and
modalities related...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 39183Date: November 1, 2006
This is the tenth report of the
International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
(POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in the Lao
People's Democratic Republic....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70880Date: October 30, 2006Author:
Mcdowell,David K. ;
Scudder,Thayer ;
Talbot,Lee M.
The main purpose of the survey is to
evaluate the technical, economic, and financial viability of
gas flaring reduction projects in Indonesia, and to provide
recommendations...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71385Date: October 25, 2006Author:
Crosetti, Mike ;
Fuller, Dick
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank. He
speaks about France has been a leader in IDA in the past,
will lead the...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101363Date: October 18, 2006Author:
Wolfowitz,Paul
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a global
initiative established...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101361Date: October 16, 2006Author:
Wolfowitz,Paul
Non-oil commodity prices fell 1.7
percent in September but are up 20.0 percent year-todate.
Most of the September decrease was due to large declines in
a few agriculture...
On October 12, 2006, Kosovo moved one
step closer today to developing the potential of its large
energy reserves after the World Bank’s Board of Executive
Directors...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169272Date: October 12, 2006
On October 5, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Directors approved today a 49.35 million dollars
grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for Mexico
to demonstrate...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164978Date: October 5, 2006
The level of electrification in
sub-Saharan Africa is low, with less than 10 percent of the
rural households having access to electricity. One of the
key barriers to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 41599Date: October 1, 2006Author:
Aissa,Mohamed Moncef ;
Amissah-Arthur,Jabesh ;
Bergman,Sten ;
Davies, Ian ;
Fernstrom, Eric ;
Karhammar,Ralph Ake ;
Mathur,Subodh C. ;
Sanghvi,Arun P. ;
Tulloch,John E.
Among policy instruments to control
future greenhouse gas emissions, well-calibrated general
intensity targets are known to lead to lower uncertainty on
the amount of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4033Date: October 1, 2006Author:
Lecocq,Franck Michel ;
Marschinski,Robert
The document contains the proceedings of
the Energy Investment Forum conference, The Forum was held
to discuss option and explore opportunities for improving
access...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 38346Date: October 1, 2006
Carbon transactions are defined as
purchase contracts or ERPAs (Emission Reductions Purchase
Agreements) whereby one party pays another party in return
for greenhouse...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40426Date: October 1, 2006Author:
Cappor, Karan ;
Ambrosi, Philippe
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