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Toward Cleaner, Cheaper Power: Streamlined Licensing of Hydroelectric Projects in Brazil
Brazil is confronted with steadily increasing demands for electricity. The country has the ability to meet that demand by developing its considerable hydropower potential, but the regulatory process…
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Renewable Energy Project Resource Centre - Energypedia
Website for The Renewable Energy Project Resource Center (REPRC)
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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) main website. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) was founded in 1956. See their website for more information about their work.
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) main website
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Covid-19 and PPPs
'The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unforeseen major shock to the global economy and has affected infrastructure projects, and in particular PPPs, at all stages and in all sectors with implications…
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FAST-Infra initiative (Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition-Infrastructure initiative)
FAST-Infra — the ‘Finance to Accelerate the SustainableTransition-Infrastructure’ initiative — aims to close the trillion dollar sustainable infrastructure investment gap, with urgency, by…
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Climate change adaptation of major infrastructure projects
This study reviewed the availability of resource materials that can support infrastructure project developers to take into account climate change adaptation. It provides an overall stock-taking of…
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State of the Global Climate 2020
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Low-Carbon Infrastructure - Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2002-H1 2017
After 2010, favorable government policies led to a surge of low-carbon projects. The percentage of low-carbon projects receiving government support grew from 3% before 2010 to 51% afterwards. The…
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Making Safeguards Work for Investors, Governments and Communities: PPPs for Infrastructure Development in Asia, Workshop Report
A two-day workshop on “Making Safeguards Work for Investors, Government and Communities: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Infrastructure Development in Asia” was held in Bangkok, Thailand in…
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EBRD Covid-19 Response: Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Discussion Paper
Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Discussion Paper
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EIB financing to support COVID-19 recovery
The EIB Group is working hard with all partners to ensure its response to the coronavirus pandemic is as ambitious as possible.
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How will coronavirus affect public-private partnerships?
The virus’ economic impacts on PPPs will place a tremendous burden on project stakeholders, users, the private corporate sector, and the public sector for weeks, months, or years.
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How the World Bank is looking at COVID-19 and public-private partnerships, right now and post-crisis
We know that healthy cooperation with the private sector will be more important than ever as countries exit the COVID-19 crisis even more fiscally constrained.
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COVID-19 and infrastructure: A very tricky opportunity
COVID-19 forces us to consider challenges that existed before the crisis that are fundamental to how we tackle infrastructure provision over the long run. More
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Countries must seize opportunity to build infrastructure sustainably in the wake of COVID-19
Jérôme Haegeli, Group Chief Economist for Swiss Re and Co-Chair of the Global Infrastructure Facility’s Advisory Council, lays out five key principles that can serve as a blueprint to help countries…
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Building socially influenced infrastructure projects in developing Asia: Why now?
The reality is that Asia’s rapid, consistent economic growth hasn’t been inclusive. While reduction in extreme poverty has taken place at almost the same speed as GDP growth in the past two…
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Brave new world – the impact of COVID-19 on upcoming and ongoing PPP tenders
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because it was a different world then. So which way should we go from here?” – Alice in Wonderland As we look into this new year, it does indeed bring a…
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Bouncing back is not enough. Let’s bounce forward to infrastructure resilience
If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you might find that the Night King and his White Walkers are an eerily precise allegory for climate change. It…
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A year helping governments roll with COVID-19’s punches to infrastructure PPPs: What we’ve learned
To ensure we capture lessons learned and share knowledge and current practice widely, the World Bank has produced a Practice Note on Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Operational PPP Projects…
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2019 brought private investment in infrastructure to more countries: Is there a message for policymakers amid COVID-19?
Infrastructure financing has evolved in order to cope with the risks specific to different environments, and DFIs have been playing a key role in providing more innovative financing options. …
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UNEP Report: Sustainable infrastructure can drive development and COVID-19 recovery
The report outlines guiding principles on integrating sustainability into government's decision making on infrastructure projects.
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IADB: The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on the Consequences of COVID-19 and on the Mitigation of Future Effects
The appearance and spread of COVID-19 have accentuated the connectivity and digitization lag in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The lockdowns imposed to reduce the spread of the virus…
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ADB: Covid-19 and PPPs in Asia and the Pacific Guidance Note
COVID-19 is significantly affecting the development and life cycle stages of PPP projects in the region. This has led to disruptions in trade, production, and supply chains as well as sharp declines…
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ESCAP: The Impact and Policy Responses for COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
This policy note summarizes the key impacts of COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific region and suggests short- and medium-term recommendations for consideration by member States to shape responses for a…