Egypt and Morocco have joined the World Bank WAVES partnership alongside the eight core implementing countries – Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda, Indonesia, Guatemala, Kyrgyz Republic, Egypt, and Morocco and seven countries receiving Targeted Technical Assistance (TTA) - Myanmar, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nepal, Madagascar, and WACA .
The Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia was implemented the Green Prosperity Project from 2013 to 2018, with the support of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The project demonstrated the feasibility of reducing GHG emissions from palm oil mills by generating renewable electricity from palm oil mill effluent. This paper presents lessons learned from these efforts and identifies the potential benefits of replicating these efforts at additional mills.
This report identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets while simultaneously helping Indonesia to achieve its climate objectives and to preserve and improve the country’s natural resources. It finds that a low carbon growth path can deliver an average GDP growth rate of 6 percent annually until 2045 and that, when combined with the sustainable utilisation of its natural resources, Indonesia can reduce its GHG emissions by nearly 43 percent by 2030.
This policymakers' summary of the report, Low Carbon Development Report: A paradigm shift towards a green economy in Indonesia, identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while simultaneously helping Indonesia achieve its climate objectives, and preserve and improve the country’s natural resources.
This policymakers' summary of the report, Low Carbon Development Report: A paradigm shift towards a green economy in Indonesia, identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while simultaneously helping Indonesia achieve its climate objectives, and preserve and improve the country’s natural resources.
This report presents the results and findings of the technical assistance project’s regional stocktake on national responses to SDGs 12, 14, and 15 in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam. In addition to this report, the project has also prepared jointly with UNDP–UNEP Poverty-Environment Action, Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific: Tool Compendium, an inventory of tools for policymakers with special emphasis on SDGs 12, 14, and 15.