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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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY CARBON FINANCE CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WORLD BANK COMMITMENTS CARBON FUNDS EMISSIONS
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 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34328

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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 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34328
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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank’s Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds

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