The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030:
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development.
This Working Paper published by the World Bank explores the integration, and efficacy, of short-lived climate pollutants focused initiatives within the financial institution’s development projects...
The study is part of the World Bank’s regional initiative –“Mitigation Options for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) in South Asia”. The objective of the regional...
The objective of the Ghana Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) is to analyze critical environmental and natural resources issues threatening sustainable economic growth and propose policy actions...
This document presents the planned actions until 2022 under the Global Green Freight Action Plan.
Going forward, we will continue our work across all modes to align green freight programs...
This report documents the findings from the first phase of methodologies review of the Field Study on Quantifying and Measuring Climate, Health, and Gender Co-Benefits from Clean Cooking...
How we guide progress toward achieving access to modern-energy cooking solutions for all is more critical than ever before. To date, measurements of access have focused primarily on fuel...
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), the country’s designated climate change and MP focal point, became more concerned about HFC use in Viet Nam and how it relates to its...
The present Mitigation Plan for the Energy Sector is in total agreement with the National Energy Policy, in the sense of supporting a gradual transition towards an economy -and an energy matrix-...
Climate change is damaging human health now, and is projected to have a greater impact in the future. Low- and middle-income countries are seeing the worst effects as they are most vulnerable to...
Landfill gas management can help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to the overall safe operation of a landfill, sometimes simultaneously generating revenue. However, financing these...
Municipal solid waste generation and associated greenhouse gas emissions are expected to continue to rise, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
This report...
Climate change presents enormous challenges and opportunities for development, making it essential that climate and development be tackled in an integrated way. This Climate Change Action Plan (...
The Black Carbon Finance Study Group report finds that existing funds are already in a position to finance businesses, activities, technologies, and policies that will contribute to cutting black...
Over the last several years, stakeholders across low and middle income countries have expressed an urgent need for increased support on pollution management in order to respond to the magnitude of...
World Bank presentation at the CCAC-UNDP side event "EXPERIENCE AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF EARLY HFC SURVEYS FUNDED BY THE CCAC" on 2 November 2015 in Dubai, UAE on the margins of the 27th Meeting...
The Brief published by the World Bank Group - Climate Change, offers an overview of the PAF and what it hopes to accomplish: The challenge of solving climate change by targeting methane emission...
The report covers the carbon funds, facilities, and financial products managed by the World Bank Group between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014.
This Voluntary Standard for Global Gas Flaring and Venting Reduction provides guidance on how to achieve reductions in the flaring, and venting of gas associated with crude oil production,...
This report aims to inform efforts to control black carbon emissions from diesel-based transportation in developing countries. It presents a summary of emissions control approaches from developed...
This report is about how climate change is affecting the cryosphere—those snow-capped mountain ranges, brilliant glaciers, and vast permafrost regions on which all of us depend. It lays out 14...
This Working Paper published by the World Bank explores the integration, and efficacy, of short-lived climate pollutants focused initiatives within the financial institution’s development projects...
This report, published by The Methane Finance Study Group, considers pay-for-performance mechanisms for methane abatement. The analysis complements the Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s (CCAC)...
The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) sector is worth USD 390 billion in both OECD and emerging countries and provides up to 5% of urban jobs in low-income countries. Global MSW production...
Lead by the World Bank, this Knowledge Paper of the Urban Development Series discusses the challenge of urbanization with a focus on developing countries in the decades ahead. This...
This Environmental Study aims to
(i) to present the pros and cons of existing and alternative brick technologies in Bangladesh with specific focus on pollution and energy efficiency;...
