The guide highlights the ground-level regulatory and policy questions that must be answered by electricity regulators, rural energy agencies, and ministries to promote commercially sustainable investments by private operators and community organizations. Among the practical questions addressed is how to design and implement retail tariffs, quality of service standards, feed-in tariffs, and backup tariffs. The guide also analyzes the regulatory implementation issues triggered by donor grants and so-called top-up payments.

The report is the most comprehensive study on mini grids to date. It takes stock of the global mini grid market and industry; analyzes in detail the solar-hybrid mini grid costs and technological innovations; shows the importance of introducing income-generating machinery and micro-finance early in the planning process; and provides policy makers, investors and developers with insights on how mini grids can be scaled up.

Sutton, William R.; Lotsch, Alexander; Prasann, Ashesh. 2024. Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System. Agriculture and Food Series. Conference Edition. © Washington, DC: World Bank.

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The Resilience Rating System: A Methodology for Building and Tracking Resilience to Climate Change was published by The World Bank Group in 2021.  

"State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2011." World Bank, June 2011. This paper discusses a startling development on carbon trading as uncertainty in relation to the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol.

Author: Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

The implementation issues are presented with specific ground-level options and recommendations rather than just general pronouncements. To make the discussion more concrete for practitioners, the guide provides numerous real-world examples of successful and unsuccessful regulatory and policy actions taken in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, as well as Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. 

The webinar discusses Solar Power Purchase Agreements (SPPA). An SPPA is a financial arrangement in which a third-party developer owns, operates, and maintains a photovoltaic (PV) system and a host customer (i.e., a business, municipal government, or university) agrees to site the system on its roof or elsewhere on its property and purchase the system’s electric output for a pre-determined period (in English).

The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) of the IPCC Working Group III provides an assessment and thorough analysis of renewable energy technologies and their current and potential role in the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The results presented here are based on an extensive assessment of scientific literature, including specifi cs of individual studies, but also an aggregate across studies analyzed for broader conclusions.

The Blue Carbon Readiness Framework, is a step-by-step, well-illustrated guide with simple checklists, that can be used to determine readiness and to catalyze and scale up investment in blue carbon credit finance.

The Blue Carbon Readiness Framework consists of three pillars:

The Scientific Basis for Action on Blue Carbon Ecosystems (Pillar 1).

Building a Policy and Institutional Environment for Blue Carbon (Pillar 2).

Mobilizing Finance for Blue Carbon (Pillar 3). 

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