The Global Environment Facility (GEF)-in
collaboration with the Implementing and Executing Agencies,
and with technical assistance from the United Nations
University-is...
All of the major international
conventions and agreements on environmental and sustainable
development issues recognize that land degradation threatens
the global environment...
Four energy efficiency/demand-side (DSM)
management projects were assessed in 2004-5 to determine
their long-term impacts and to draw out lessons that could
be applied...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37468Date: January 31, 2006Author:
Wedderburn,Samuel G.
Four climate change projects in the
energy efficiency thematic area were selected for study in
2004-5: the Poland Efficient Lighting Project, Mexico High
Efficiency...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37467Date: January 31, 2006Author:
Phumaraphand, Khun Napaporn ;
Wedderburn,Samuel G.
On January 24, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors approved a 100 million dollars
loan to improve the living standards of dairyfarmers in
parts of China’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166026Date: January 24, 2006
On June 22, 2006, The Board of Executive
Directors of the World Bank today approved a project to
improve the productivity and sustainable use of the natural
resource...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165048Date: January 22, 2006
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank.
The International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human
Pandemic Influenza...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101333Date: January 18, 2006Author:
Wolfowitz,Paul
On January 17, 2006, the World Bank
today approved a US200 million dollars IBRD loan for the
Second Azerbaijan Highway Project. The project willhelp
reduce road transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169172Date: January 17, 2006
The Banks engagement in carbon finance
started with the establishment of the $180 million prototype
carbon fund in 1999. Since then the Bank has also agreed to
administer...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76700Date: January 1, 2006
The energy situation in Indonesia is
changing rapidly. High and fast international oil energy
price increases had to be dealt with to ease the pressure on
the national...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51379Date: January 1, 2006
The purpose of this review by the
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank is to
inform the efforts to scale up the Bank's support for
renewable energy by...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38577Date: January 1, 2006
This background paper reviews the
development and key regulations of US environmental
emergency planning and response, current main programs in
their pollution/spill...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37748Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Gong, Yuyang
The objective of this study is to
support Nicaragua's Comision Nacional de Energia (CNE)
in preparing and implementing new policy and strategy to
encourage the private...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71522Date: January 1, 2006
The 2006 edition of the little green
data book coincides with a wave of renewed attention to the
energy sector coming out of the group of eight summit at
Gleneagles,...
Type: World Development IndicatorsReport#: 54161Date: January 1, 2006
This edtion of the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports
highlights the recent key economic developments as well as
the forces...
Type: Economic Updates and ModelingReport#: 39408Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Claessens, Stijn ;
Dyer,Paul D. ;
Grais,Wafik ;
Keller,Jennifer L. ;
Riordan,Elliot Joseph ;
Romer,Caspar
This edtion of the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports
highlights the recent key economic developments as well as
the forces...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39407Date: January 1, 2006
The main objective of this assignment
was to assess the strategy being followed by the Bank/GEF
for solar thermal power technology in light of: (1) the
current state...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37463Date: January 1, 2006
The World Bank Group considers the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) an essential part of the
international community's response to the challenges of
protecting the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37470Date: January 1, 2006
In the wake of the Soviet Union's
collapse, Armenia, like other former Soviet republics, began
to struggle with the implications of its newfound
independence. In the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 35408Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Sargsyan,Gevorg
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