Historically, Ghana’s economic landscape has been shaped by the mining sector, which has been dominated, primarily, by gold production. The beginning of commercial exploitation of oil in 2010 further accentuated the footprint of the extraction sector.
This report shows that there is substantial demand for support on how to prepare and finance projects around climate change in cities.
This report focuses on the application of blockchain to address pressing environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity.
The cheap power purchase agreements (PPAs) for two recent concentrating solar power (CSP) projects in Australia (Aurora) and Dubai (DEWA IV) raise questions of how such low costs can be achieved and whether this could mark the commercial breakthrough of this technology. This paper investigates these projects with the information available and seeks reasons for the low PPAs.
This report aims to support a wide range of public and private stakeholders in preparing action plans to develop new, evidence-based research and knowledge that supports effective climate action strategies in cities.
This report summarizes the efforts of MDBs to develop (i) more detail on the principle of additionality; (ii) common definitions; (iii) guidance on a common approach to the governance of additionality; and (iv) guidance on types of evidence that help demonstrate the presence of additionality.