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Practical Guidance for Defining a Smart Grid Modernization Strategy : The Case of Distribution

Madrigal, Marcelino; Uluski, Robert - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This report provides some practical guidance on how utilities can define their own smart grid vision, identify priorities, and structure investment plans. While most of these strategic aspects apply to any area of the electricity grid, the document focuses on the segment of distribution. The...

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Adapting to Climate Change : Assessing World Bank Group Experience--Phase III of the World Bank Group and Climate Change

Group, Independent Evaluation - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues related to greenhouse gas mitigation. It was mainly concerned with the potential for energy...

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Data Against Natural Disasters : Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction

Amin, Samia; Goldstein, Markus - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Data against natural disasters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster management information systems. The volume's introductory chapters outline the data needs that arise at different stages in disaster...

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Green Infrastructure Finance : Leading Initiatives and Research

Baietti, Aldo; Shlyakhtenko, Andrey; Rocca, Roberto La; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

step in the work on green infrastructure finance. Its objective is to document and summarize current initiatives and …. 'Green infrastructure finance', as defined in this report, is a combination of financial and nonfinancial interventions and … instruments that can be utilized for making green investments in infrastructure more affordable and less risky to private sponsors …

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Breathing Clean : Considering the Switch to Natural Gas Buses

Kojima, Masami - Economics Research, World Bank Group

In response to emerging epidemiological evidence of the toxicity of diesel vehicular emissions, there is growing interest in substituting conventional diesel with much cleaner natural gas in cities where ambient concentrations of particulate matter are markedly higher than what is...

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Climate Change and the World Bank Group : Phase II - The Challenge of Low-Carbon Development

Group, Independent Evaluation - Economics Research, World Bank Group

The first volume of Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) series (IEG 2009) examined World Bank experience with the promotion of the most important win-win (no regrets) energy policies, policies that combine domestic gains with global greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. These included energy pricing...

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Strong, Safe, and Resilient : A Strategic Policy Guide for Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific

Jha, Abhas K.; Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Experiencing both recurrent small-scale events as well as devastating large-scale catastrophes, no other region in the world is affected by disasters as is East Asia and the Pacific. In the last decade, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, and many other cities have been repeatedly hit by floods....

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Low-Carbon Development for Mexico

Johnson, Todd M.; Alatorre, Claudio; Romo, Zayra; Liu, Feng - Economics Research, World Bank Group

One of the most compelling reasons for pursuing low-carbon development is that the potential impacts of climate change are predicted to be severe, for both industrial and developing countries, and that reducing greenhouse gas emissions can reduce the risk of the most catastrophic impacts. The...

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Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

Developing countries are now recovering from the worst ravages of the financial crisis of 1997-98. However, the recovery is both uneven and fragile, and many countries continue to struggle in the aftermath. In addition to a review of international economic developments, this report considers...

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State and Trends of the Carbon Market—2004

Lecocq, Franck - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This study describes the status of the emerging carbon market, as of May 2004. The carbon market encompasses trades of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowances (under the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme), and project-based transactions, whereby a buyer participates in the financing...

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