Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds

This retrospective examines how the World Bank’s strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an outsized role in catalyzing climate action worldwide for nearly 30 years. By looking back at the history of climate and carbon f...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667621591757499892/Accelerating-and-Innovating-Climate-Action-A-Retrospective-of-the-World-Bank-s-Experience-with-Select-Climate-and-Carbon-Trust-Funds
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spelling okr-10986-343282021-05-25T09:57:57Z Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds World Bank GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY CARBON FINANCE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WORLD BANK COMMITMENTS CARBON FUNDS EMISSIONS This retrospective examines how the World Bank’s strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an outsized role in catalyzing climate action worldwide for nearly 30 years. By looking back at the history of climate and carbon finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider development community can continue to benefit from climate-related trust funds to support countries in meeting their Paris Agreement commitments and achieving their sustainable development and poverty reduction goals. 2020-08-11T18:32:08Z 2020-08-11T18:32:08Z 2020-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667621591757499892/Accelerating-and-Innovating-Climate-Action-A-Retrospective-of-the-World-Bank-s-Experience-with-Select-Climate-and-Carbon-Trust-Funds http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34328 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study
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topic GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
CARBON FINANCE
CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
WORLD BANK COMMITMENTS
CARBON FUNDS
EMISSIONS
spellingShingle GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
CARBON FINANCE
CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
WORLD BANK COMMITMENTS
CARBON FUNDS
EMISSIONS
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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
description This retrospective examines how the World Bank’s strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an outsized role in catalyzing climate action worldwide for nearly 30 years. By looking back at the history of climate and carbon finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider development community can continue to benefit from climate-related trust funds to support countries in meeting their Paris Agreement commitments and achieving their sustainable development and poverty reduction goals.
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title Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
title_short Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
title_full Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
title_fullStr Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
title_full_unstemmed Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
title_sort accelerating and innovating climate action : a retrospective of the world bank’s experience with select climate and carbon trust funds
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667621591757499892/Accelerating-and-Innovating-Climate-Action-A-Retrospective-of-the-World-Bank-s-Experience-with-Select-Climate-and-Carbon-Trust-Funds
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