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Climate Support Facility

The official website of the World Bank Climate Support Facility.

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Process to Conducting Assessments: Project Preparation

table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Figure 1.3 Project assessment process The Framework outlines the key elements and criteria that projects will be…

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Introduction to the Project Assessment Framework

table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Framework for the identification and selection of high-quality ERC projects, most likely to attract high demand and best value pricing.1…

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Objective of Project Preparation Guidelines

table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } The Guidelines are designed to provide practical and implementable guidelines for governments to select ERC projects that are most…

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Contents: Mobilizing ERC Finance

Find a full outline to sections found in the Mobilizing ERC Finance Section. UNLOCKING GLOBAL EMISSION REDUCTION CREDIT (Main Landing Page)Mobilizing ERC FinanceChapter 1 - Introduction to…

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Objective of Country Assessment Guidelines

table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } These Guidelines are primarily intended to provide governments with a strategic and holistic understanding of how the demand-side…

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Contents: Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects

Find a full outline to sections found in the Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects. UNLOCKING GLOBAL EMISSION REDUCTION CREDIT (Main Landing Page)Guidance for Countries in Assessing…

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Abbreviations: Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects

Find a list of helpful terms used in the Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects. ACR American Carbon Registry AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses ALM…

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Appendices: Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects

The Appendices under the Emission Reduction Program (ERP) include:Appendix A - Appendix A includes a Project Profile Template. The Excel template provides toolkit for the PPP…

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Further Guidance for Application

The carbon market landscape is in a state of rapid and continuous evolution, and it is crucial that countries embrace the ability to adapt and reflect the latest market developments. At the same time…

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Project Assessment and Final Decision

Conducting the Project Assessment and making the Final Decision provides a deep dive on Step Three and Step Four of the assessment process, covering the assessable criteria in the Project Assessment…

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Initial Profiling and Preliminary Decision

Initial Profiling and Preliminary Decision provides a deep dive on Step One and Step Two of the assessment process, covering each of the assessable criterion in the initial profiling step, and how…

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Determining Country Inputs

Determining Country Inputs provides a deep dive on Step Zero of the process, before going into the project-level assessment. This step aims to provide a country-wide view on the alignment of…

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Project Assessment Template

table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Introduction to the Framework - Appendix BThe project assessment is found in Appendix B. It is a more detailed review into the project’s…

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MRT Energy Efficiencies Model for ERP

Proposed Structure of this Public Private Partnership (PPP) ModelThe project will be leveraging an Existing-Refurbish- User-Tariffs model. This will involve the state- owned entity with the existing…

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Recovery Bonds: Innovative Sovereign Bond Structures for Financing a Sustainable Recovery

This paper assesses the potential for Recovery Bonds to help sovereigns raise capital to fund a sustainable and climate-resilient post-COVID recovery. As climate impacts become more severe, countries…

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Unlocking the Potential for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

This report focuses on the potential for emerging market sovereign issuers to tap these pools of capital, based on surveys of public debt management offices and investors. It also suggests how to…

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Aon Political Risk Map

The official website of Aon Political Risk Map.

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Ghana authorizes transfer of mitigation outcomes to Switzerland

Supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ghana is the first country globally to launch a project and issue an authorization statement for the transfer of mitigation outcomes as…

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Guidance on functionality to support attribution and management of VERs authorised for use under article 6 of the Paris Agreement

From October 2022, new functionality has been introduced to the Gold Standard Impact Registry to enable the labelling and management of Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) that are…

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Verra Publishes Responses to Consultation on VCU Label Proposals

Verra has published a summary of comments received during the public consultation on proposed Verified Carbon Unit (VCU) labels, along with Verra’s responses.

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The Legal Nature of Carbon Credits

Notwithstanding the important role of offsetting as a tool to help deliver Paris Agreement alignment and the widely anticipated surge in demand for VCCs (noting the emergence of new VCC marketplaces…

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Zimbabwe to regulate carbon credit market to curb greenwashing

Zimbabwe's government will closely regulate voluntary carbon offset trading in a bid to curb greenwashing and ensure benefits for local communities.

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Zimbabwe backs down from carbon deals bonfire threat – report

The Carbon Pulse website introduces Zimbabwe's carbon offset practice.