Emissions trading systems and carbon taxes showed themselves to be resilient in the last year. Despite a global energy crisis, high inflation, and fiscal pressures, emissions trading systems (ETSs) and carbon taxes posted record high revenues, according to the World Bank’...
The World Bank has recently put together the largest ever carbon trading deal. Backed by funds from Danish Carbon Fund, the Italian Carbon Fund, Deutsche Bank, Mitsui & Co. and private capital, they have paid two Chinese ch...
World Bank Open Data provides free and open access to various global development data. This release contains Carbon dioxide emissions in kiloton (kt) by all countries in the world. The data is available from year 1960. Carbon dioxide emissions, largely by-products of energy production and use,...
His priority projects include a $15 billion plan to provide renewable energy to 100 million people in Africa, a multi-country effort to monetize carbon credits at premium pricing, a plan to limit methane emissions and to support green hydrogen infrastructure in India. Q: Let me start with your...
emissions trading scheme. One view expressed has been that if the country has to pay for its carbon emissions it would much rather pocket the money domestically than see it go to a foreign entity.A relative CBAM Exposure Index put together by the World Bank by June 2023 suggested that ...
cope with the intermittency of the sun and the wind. Concessionary lending and aid from rich countries are essential and a moral imperative. However, the sums required are far greater than what might plausibly be squeezed out of Western donors or multilateral organisations such as the World Bank...
000 MW in 2009 to more than 20,000 MW in 2018," said Jari Väyrynen, World Bank's team leader for the Scaling-up Renewable Energy Project, adding that "a strong collaboration between the public and private sector will help not only lower carbon emissions, but also meet energy demand."...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved a loan of $750 million to Colombia, to help the country become more resilient in the face of climate change by buoying up renewable energy efforts and reducing carbon emissions, the bank said on Monday. The loan looks to boost develop...
SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- If countries, sectors and firms do not transit to a low-carbon economy and become climate resilient, climate change will have a drastic impact on the competitiveness of these economies. This is the warning from Benoit Bosquet, the World Bank's regional director...
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