This Report Financing a Resilient Urban Future: A Policy brief on World Bank and global experience on financing climate-resilient urban infrastructure draws on World Bank experience and datasets and a review of academic and grey literature on financing three core urban infrastructure systems – water, transport, and energy.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) studies are the main tool used to measure the carbon footprints of building products at each phase of their cradle-to-grave lifespan (i.e. production, use, and end of life). While LCAs are the best-available tool for evaluating the greenhouse gas (GHG) performance of alternative building products and designs, policy makers and building designers should be aware there are also limitations, challenges, and uncertainties. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to identify:
This report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities to provide clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa.
This report Financing Climate Futures: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing is one part of the broader Financing Climate Futures initiative focusing on the identification of critical uncertainties posing constraints to aligning financial flows with climate objectives and in particular infrastructure investment.
This Report Financing for Development: Progress and Prospects 2017 marks the second edition released by the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing Development following the full-year implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.