Hong Kong Efficiency Unit

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements where the public and private sectors both bring their complementary skills to a project, with varying levels of involvement and responsibility, for the purpose of providing public services or projects. They are characterised by the following:

Global Carbon Capture Storage Institute (CCS): Carbon Capture Legal Programme Legal Resources

The CCLP EU Case Studies Project

The Carbon Capture Legal Programme launched the 'EU Case Studies Project' in January 2010. The project analyses the implementation of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (‘CCS Directive’) in selected European jurisdictions - the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain and Norway. Each jurisdiction, for distinct reasons, provides an example of different approaches to the transposition and to CCS in general.

World Bank Group Statement on Evolution Roadmap

The roadmap provides a basis for Management and the Board to exchange preliminary views on priorities for the World Bank Group’s evolution, identify areas for deeper engagement over coming months and a process for reaching consensus, and begin implementation of the Bank Group’s collective reform efforts. 

The roadmap outlines three building blocks of this process:

(i) Review the Bank Group’s Vision and Mission.

(ii) Review the Bank Group’s Operating Model.

WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30

The World Bank will support innovation, financing, and collective action to end gender- based violence, elevate human capital, expand and enable economic opportunities, and engage women as leaders.

Building on implementation of the 2016-2023 Gender Strategy, the new strategy emphasizes six outcomes across three strategic objectives:

First, the new strategy emphasizes six outcomes across three strategic objectives.

Foundational wellbeing: End Gender-based Violence & Elevate Human Capital 

Unlocking Blue Carbon Development: Investment Readiness Framework for Governments

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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