Sustainable development experts and policy makers expect carbon markets to drive climate finance and help meet climate goals. Carbon pricing and carbon markets continue to evolve and grow. New schemes...
Health taxes are excise taxes on products that generate negative externalities and internalities and cause health harms to consumers, typically applied to tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages...
Taxes and prices of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Brazil are low compared to international peers. The ongoing landmark reform of indirect taxes (PLP 68/2024...
Taxes and prices of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Brazil are low compared to international peers. The ongoing landmark reform of indirect taxes (PLP 68/2024...
Can mini grids help to solve the problem of poorly served main grid connected communities? A mini grid is an electricity generation and distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group...
Can mini grids help to solve the problem of poorly served main grid connected communities? A mini grid is an electricity generation and distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group...
The eastern South Asia region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) has extensive networks of all the main modes of surface transport for the movement of goods, both within and between countries. However...
Across the globe countries are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions to reach carbon neutrality and combat climate change. But doing so can be complicated. Countries are putting a price on carbon emissions...
In the long term, both energy security and decarbonization in the region will depend on substantial increases in national climate ambitions. Achieving those increases will depend, in turn, on equally substantial...
This Live Wire assesses the extent of concessional financing needed to bring to zero the incremental costs of power sector decarbonization in select low- and middle income countries. Those costs are higher...
The extension of electricity into rural areas has been the main focus of efforts to achieve universal access to reliable, affordable, and modern energy by 2030. On the African continent and elsewhere...
Finding fuel sources to replace coal in power plants is crucial in the march toward decarbonization. Biomass and ammonia are two options offering significant potential.Both can be used with coal or alone...
The purpose of this note is to provide an updated overview of 1) the rationale for implementing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes, 2) the impact of SSB taxes on prices, the demand for SSBs and substitutes...
This Q&A was designed to provide detailed responses to commonly asked questions about what and how to tax when it comes to nutrition- related targets of excise taxes, including sugar-sweetened beverages...
Transport must be decarbonized if climate commitments are to be met. Colombia is a leader in the adoption of electric vehicles in Latin America. However, the growth of the electric vehicles (EV) market...
This Knowledge Note, produced by the World Bank’s Integrating Gender Equality into Tax Reform project team of the Global Tax Program, provides a broad overview of issues in building gender equality in...
This Live Wire—based on Off the Books: Understanding and Mitigating the Fiscal Risks of Infrastructure (2023)—presents a systematic assessment of the magnitude and prevalence of fiscal risks from power...
Cooking programs in camps and other settings for the world’s 100 million displaced people have typically provided substandard stoves and fuelwood rather than clean, modern fuels. But clean cooking solutions...
Proper management of geothermal data is essential to the long-term development of geothermal resources at economically attractive costs. Even after a particular geothermal resource has come on stream...
The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose...