This report highlights inequalities and vulnerabilities that have amplified the impact of the pandemic in Asia and the Pacific and emphasizes the need for a focus on people centered development, sustainability, and climate change issues. It considers the role that digitalization has played in helping the region manage the pandemic, and the need for more inclusive digital transformation.
This report reviews the full range of policies and initiatives that an ideal green central bank would adopt across four categories: Research and Advocacy, Monetary Policy, Financial Policy, and Leading by Example.
This guidance provides practical support to enterprises on the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by providing plain-language explanations of its due diligence recommendations and associated provisions. This guideline recommend that enterprises conduct due diligence in order to identify, prevent or mitigate and account for how actual and potential adverse impacts are addressed.
In this report we identifies seven key investment areas for China’s zero-carbon transition: resource recycling, energy efficiency, demand-side electrification, zero-carbon power generation, energy storage, hydrogen, and digitalization.
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The World Bank Group is hosting a self-paced course on the "Hidden Side of Energy Access: Understanding Clean Cooking."
Companies play a key role in ending deforestation because their revenues depend on commodities that cause it. As a key source of demand for these commodities, they are also able to influence how they are produced and drive change at scale. In order to increase the scale and speed to end deforestation, right mix of solutions is needed - with collaboration and transparency at the heart of it. Ambitious collective action on deforestation is needed to achieve global climate goals, curb biodiversity loss and manage pandemic risks.
This report analyses planned infrastructure projects, decision-making frameworks related to infrastructure development and strategic planning documents in the six countries of the EU Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
This paper compiles available data and analyses, and derives policy messages, for countries in the Asia Pacific region and their partners (including development finance institutions). It characterises an enabling environment that can facilitate and expedite financing for water security commensurate with the challenges and distinctive opportunities in the region.
In the past decade, greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions, municipal waste generation, energy and material consumption, and water abstractions decreased, However, Belgium's performance remains insufficient to halt biodiversity loss and to alleviate the growing pressures of demographic development, urbanization and intensive agricultural practices.
The COP16 Accord has been central to the climate accords since 2009 and is an important symbol of trust. It states: "developed country Parties commit, in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, to a goal of mobilizing jointly USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries". As the bedrock of international public finance, the $100 billion commitment can work in concert with all pools of finance, including the large and untapped pools of private finance.