MAPUTO, May 15, 2017 - Mozambique is richly endowed with natural resources including 40 million hectares of natural forests. Despite their tremendous potential, the country’s natural forests are being...
Date: May 15, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ASTANA, January 26, 2017 – Today the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the World Bank launched a new project aimed at designing and developing Kazakhstan’s greenhouse gases (GHG) electronic...
Date: January 26, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Washington, December 12, 2016 – New data released today shows an increase over the past five years in the amount of gas flared at oil production sites worldwide, reversing a trend of flaring reduction....
Date: December 12, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
MARRAKECH, November 11, 2016―The World Bank and the US state of California are joining forces to support low carbon city efforts in China and other countries. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
Date: November 11, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Demand is hot for cool air. In certain urban areas of China, where air conditioners were practically unknown 20 years ago, almost every household now has one. Sales in countries like India are growing...
Date: October 17, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Following the globally significant 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, attention is now shifting from the identification of emissions reduction trajectories to crucial questions about how these emissions reductions...
Date: October 3, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2016 – Just like many other large cities, Buenos Aires used to have a massive congestion problem. Despite a sophisticated public transportation system, commuters would once...
Date: September 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BANGKOK, September 14, 2016 — Similar to other developing countries in the region, the forests in Thailand have been disappearing due to massive cutting of trees and lack of care for forests. To help Thailand...
Date: September 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Just six months after the landmark agreement for climate change was hammered out in Paris, country pioneers and thought leaders of results-based funding for tropical forest conservation met again in the...
Date: June 22, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Bangkok, April 20, 2016 – Today, in partnership with the World Bank Group and the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund (MLF), Saijo Denki, a Thailand manufacturer, has launched a new technology for...
Date: April 20, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
MAPUTO – July 25, 2015 – Technical leaders from Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Zambia, Gabon, India and Brazil, who serve as counterparts to the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund (BioCF), Forest Investment...
Date: July 25, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON D.C., July 17, 2015 - Right now, there are not enough incentives for the managers of farms, or wastewater treatment plants, or the owners of landfills in developing countries, to capture the...
Date: July 17, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Auction supports projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions WASHINGTON, July 17, 2015— Private sector bidders taking part in the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation’s (PAF)...
Date: July 17, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Richard Fuller is President of Pure Earth, which serves as Secretariat for the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP). The nonprofit Pure Earth works to clean up contaminated...
Date: April 21, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Washington, D.C.—Forests and trees provide many economic, social and environmental services and values, from creating jobs to providing housing, food and energy to delivering carbon sequestration and watershed...
Date: March 20, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
November 25, 2014 - Countries around the world are finding that energy subsidies pose a threat to their economic, environmental and fiscal health. Despite originally being designed to help the poor and...
Date: November 25, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In the Andes of South America and across the mountains of Central Asia, the glaciers are receding. As temperatures continue to warm, their melting will bring more water to farms and cities earlier in the...
Date: November 23, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Hanoi, November 12, 2014 – The State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank today signed a US$ 500 million loan for a US$ 731.25 million operation in support of Vietnam’s energy sector. The investment will...
Date: November 12, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
East Asia is on the front lines of climate change. Hundreds of millions of people in the region live in and outside cities in low-lying areas, facing increasing risks from rising seas, heat waves, droughts,...
Date: September 22, 2014
Type: Opinion
Language: English
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