Strategic Guidance for Country System Assessments (Download PDF version) - coming soon!

These Country System Guidelines aim to provide governments with a strategic and holistic assessment of their current legal and institutional frameworks, to help them understand how the global market perceives their country systems and where any gaps or short-comings might be found, under Workstream One of the ERP. 

World Bank Emissions Reduction Program: Mobilizing ERC Finance (Download PDF version) - coming soon!

A significant amount of effort has gone into quantifying the supply and demand for ERCs globally. There has been less focus on understanding the scale of investment into ERC-generating activities or analyzing the financing structures that are best suited to accelerate capital flow to ERC activities. 

In this report you will find a review the current landscape of ERC financing and key options for scaling up debt for ERC activities in EMDEs.

 

Climate Toolkits: Roads

The roads toolkit addresses key climate-related aspects in road projects by helping map climate policies and assess project alignment; focusing on climate risk assessment, carbon footprint estimation, and mitigation strategies; and guiding prioritization of climate strategies and checks their economic viability.

Climate Toolkits: Renewables

The renewables toolkit helps government agencies in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) incorporate climate-related risks in the early stages of renewable energy infrastructure projects procured through public-private partnerships (PPPs). It provides step-by-step instructions on applying the provisions of the Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs (CTIP3) to renewable energy-specific PPPs. The toolkit familiarizes non-expert users with the impact of climate change on renewable energy projects and offers guidance on climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. It aims to assess the potential effects of climate change on projects and suggests measures to mitigate impacts. NOTE: The toolkit is a complement to the Umbrella Toolkit and is not intended for the design and tendering phases.

Climate Risk and Ports: A Practical Guide on Strengthening Resilience

While ports are naturally exposed to climate-related hazards such as storm surge or sea level rise, the level of exposure differs significantly from location to location, and the degree of vulnerability depends heavily on infrastructure design and specifications. A site- and asset-specific risk assessment allows port developers and operators to identify adaptation needs and prioritize investments in measures that enhance resilience. Such an assessment is the starting point to take advantage of the triple dividend that climate resilience can deliver.

The Role of National Development Banks in Catalyzing International Climate Finance

This publication discusses the unique role that National development banks (NDBs) could play in scaling up private financing for climate change mitigation projects through the intermediation of international and national public climate finance in their respective local credit markets and the conditions that would be needed for them to be most effective. It draws from experiences in international climate finance and best practices, processes, and products of NDBs within the Latin American and Caribbean region.

The Climate Finance Portal

This portal is a gateway to information on activities funded in developing countries to implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Portal presents information on financial resources that have been made available to Non-Annex I Parties to the UNFCCC, and consists of the following four modules:

National Communications Module, Fast-start Finance Module, Funds Managed by the GEF Module and Adaptation Fund Module.

 

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