This case study builds on experiences shared by Africa Mini-Grids Community of Practice (AMG-CoP) members and further explores best practices for community engagement in the design and implementation of mini-grid projects. It draws particularly on recent activities in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
This report presents the objectives, methodology, procedures and main findings of the OECD project "Strengthening public finance capacity for green investments in the EECCA countries". Between 2016-19, the project aimed to help set the partner countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova) on a sustainable path of development by reducing the energy and carbon intensity of their economies.
This paper Outside In? Using International Carbon Markets for Mitigation Not Covered by Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Under the Paris Agreement outlines key issues and options relating to these questions. Whether, and how, such mitigation outcomes should be internationally transferred and accounted for raises many issues of capacity, fairness, breadth of mitigation, and incentives for making progress in the scope and ambition of NDCs over successive NDC cycles.
The Going Global: Expanding Offshore Wind To Emerging Markets report follows the establishment of a new World Bank Group program that aims to fast-track the expansion of offshore wind power in developing countries and provide technical assistance to these countries, so they can assess their offshore wind potential and develop a pipeline of projects that are investment-ready.
This report focuses on public and private finance commitments in 20 developing countries – known as the HICs – that together are home to nearly 80 percent of those living without access to sustainable and modern energy.
The Commodities and Development Report 2019: Commodity Dependence, Climate Change and the Paris Agreement report seeks to further the understanding of the interactions between climate change and the commodity sectors.