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Five Film4Climate films to inspire you in 2017
It’s just one month into 2017, and for many, that means they have just launched their New Year’s resolutions. The gym is still crowded, your refrigerator is still full of healthy food, but that...
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Energy storage can open doors to clean energy solutions in emerging markets
Also available in: French Energy storage is a crucial tool for enabling the effective integration of renewable energy and unlocking the benefits of the local generation of clean resilient energy...
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An early education in development
This World Bank staff member, from a traditional Maasai pastoralist family in Southern Kenya, is helping to ensure that indigenous people have a seat at the table when it comes to forest conservation...
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Indigenous peoples, forest conservation and climate change: a decade of...
Women in Panama participated in activities supported by the capacity building program. Photo credit: World Bank This year’s UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which kicked off last week in New...
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Forest and climate-smart development in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Communities are working to reduce deforestation and forest degradation to address climate change in the DRC. Photo credit: Laura Otálora/The World Bank The Democratic Republic of Congo’s efforts to...
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A new front in the climate fight: innovative finance
Innovate4Climate Finance & Markets Week. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtieWhat does public debt have to do with combatting climate change? A few years ago, this would have seemed a strange...
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Reaffirming our commitment to carbon pricing and climate action
Second Annual Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition High-Level Assembly. Photo: World Bank When the world united around the historic Paris climate agreement, in 2015, the message was clear: It’s unfair...
View ArticleConnecting on climate action and Sustainable Development Goals
Global action on climate change to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals was a key message delivered by the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea at the United Nations High Level...
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Scaling up climate investments will require innovation in five key areas
Just ask the investors: businesses in emerging markets can no longer afford to ignore the risks posed by the changing climate to their bottom lines. Ranging from increasingly frequent and severe...
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The Pacific Alliance and climate change
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is moving quickly to introduce market incentives as a component of their climate change mitigation policy, for example, 24 countries have identified fiscal...
View ArticleUrgency and unity central at Fiji-led climate conference
The inspiring slogan of the UN Climate Change conference COP23 “Uniting for Climate Action – Further Faster Together” still reverberates in my daily thoughts. The World Bank Group partnered with the...
View ArticlePartnership for people, planet, and prosperity
As the Global Environment Facility’s 6th Assembly welcomes over 1,000 delegates and heads of state in Vietnam this week, it seems like a good time to take a step back and consider how we are doing...
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World Ozone Day: Taking stock of what it means to stay cool
Read the Chinese version of this blogBlogging from the Commemoration event for the 2018 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer in Beijing, China. Have you suffered heat stress this...
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A warming world means it’s high time to rethink the composition of...
Also available in: Français Photo Credit: Flore de Preneuf/World Bank From the Old Farmer’s Almanac to cutting edge satellite systems, farmers have always been in the market for weather forecasts...
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Social business, youth and technology to accelerate climate action to 1.5°C
Recently the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set out clear scientific evidence of what a world impacted by climate change will look like in their Global Warming of 1.5°C report, and...
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Digging the cold gold for the most vulnerable
Photo Credit: Zhu Difeng / Shutterstock There is a myth that cooling technology is just for those who live in hot and humid climates. Let me break this illusion. Cooling is needed all around the...
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Our children’s planet: What does their education have to do with climate change?
Photo: Khasar Sandag / World BankOur world is very different than our grandparent’s. In 1950, there were about 2.5 billion people; today, there are more than 7 billion. Overall, people are healthier,...
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Investing in resource efficiency – the economics and politics of financing...
Photo by Tom Fisk from Pexels“Moving towards a more responsible and efficient use of natural resources is key, not only to address resource scarcity, wastage, and the associated environmental effects,...
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Why finance ministers may hold the keys to climate action
People watch the rescue process in the flooded area on August 17,2018 in Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India. Kerala was badly affected by the floods during the monsoon season. Source: AJP,...
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Cracking open the green bond market – What’s next?
From left to right, Jean-Marie Masse, Chief Investment Officer, IFC Financial Institutions Group, and Flora Chao, Global Head of Funding, IFC Treasury, and Frédéric Samama, Co-Head Institutional...
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