The 2024 GFDT Annual Report covers January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024. Throughout 2024, GFDT-funded activities have delivered advisory services to 55 government entities, provided technical support...
Scaling up energy efficiency is critical to the energy transition—and the public sector is a good place to start. Programs in public buildings, in particular, can introduce new models and thus help shape...
Ratings for the Liaoning Safe and Sustainable Urban Water Supply Project for China were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation...
Ratings for the Energy Efficiency Project for Bosnia and Herzegovina were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory...
The Management Action Record (MAR) is integral to the World Bank Group’s accountability framework. It supports accountability, learning, and adaptation for the Bank Group management’s implementation of...
Energy is an essential production input for firms. Governments around the world have been subsidizing the production and consumption of energy for decades. By reforming energy subsidies, governments can...
The Global Challenge Program for Energy Access and Transition (GCP-E) seeks to respond to the urgency and enormity of the global challenge, not with a change in focus, but with an evolution of the World...
The brief is the first in a two-part series that provides an overview of the electricity sector's demand and supply side environmental regulations. This brief focuses on supply-side regulations and investigates...
Addressing energy poverty is paramount for economic development, given its close connection to income poverty. Research indicates that lower-income households are disproportionately affected by energy...
In China, lucrative energy efficiency and renewable energy projects continue to emerge. They just need to be recognized as they can mean good business for enterprises and those financing sustainable energy...
In recent years, considerable support has emerged within the international community for broader, more ambitious climate change miitigation efforts. Among the leading innovations is the Regional Energy...
In recent years, considerable support has emerged within the international community for broader, more ambitious climate change miitigation efforts. Among the leading innovations is the Regional Energy...
Um novo sistema tributário sobre o consumo no Brasil foi aprovado por emenda constitucional em dezembro de 2023, aguardando a definição da legislação infraconstitucional ainda em debate no Congresso em...
A new system of consumption taxes in Brazil was approved by constitutional amendment in December 2023, with infra-constitutional legislation under debate in Congress as of July 2024. This legislation will...
In China, lucrative energy efficiency and renewable energy projects continue to emerge. They just need to be recognized as they can mean good business for enterprises and those financing sustainable energy...
Ratings for the Developing Market-based Energy Efficiency Program in China Project for China were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation...
IFC’s Global Accelerating Energy Storage Systems Program seeks to help kickstart and accelerate transformative investments and private finance in energy storage and renewable energy (RE) across several...