The objective of the Sustainable Low-Carbon Development in Orinoquia Region Project for Colombia is to improve enabling conditions for sustainable and low-carbon landscape planning and management in project targeted areas.
... See More + To overcome the legal issue related to the incorporation of grant resources into the national budget, a modification in the project implementation arrangements has been proposed by the Recipient and agreed by all parties. This modification implies the inclusion of a fiduciary agent (FIDUAGRARIA) that will be responsible for receiving and administrating the grant funds, thereby enabling the flow of funds (disbursements) and thus the activities planned by each agency to commence. In addition, all parties agree that the inclusion of the fiduciary agent will increase efficiency in the management and execution of grant resources for the following reasons: (i) it will guarantee a more expedite execution of grant funds for activities defined by the four co-implementing entities, and (ii) this modality does not require incorporation of grant resources into the national budget and therefore does not fall under the budget annuities, allowing for a longer-term planning of activities beyond the 12 month budget period. While MADR remains the lead recipient and implementing agency, this revision will result in changes to the Grant Agreement, requiring a level-two project restructuring. An official letter by MADR requesting the restructuring, was received by the Bank on July 4, 2018.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) race to resilience just became more urgent with the release of the IPCC 1.5 degrees C Special Report. The Africa region must adapt to the 0.5 degrees C warming of the past 50 years, while at the same time prepare for the intensification of climate change impacts.
... See More + The good news is that the region is not starting from zero; the bad news is that the current pace of climate action is far from adequate. The Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) has been a galvanizing platform for climate action since its launch in December 2015, yet it must be even more ambitious in the scale and pace of climate action in the face of a new urgency to manage climate risks and deliver on climate-resilient development. Highlights of the progress up to andincluding FY18 as well as the main outstanding challenges are summarized here. The report also highlights successful projects that can be replicated, key lessons learned, and reflects on future strategic directions.
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Working Paper 132749 NOV 01, 2018
Rigaud,Kanta K.; Ravina Da Silva,Manuela; Shetty,Anushree Arun; Wang,TaoFrenchDisclosed
The Liberian economy is undergoing a process of structural transformation, as the dominanceof agriculture and mining gradually gives way to a rising services sector.
... See More + Much of the Liberian economy is structured around foreign direct investment (FDI) and the development of private agricultural, mining, and forestry concessions. The Liberian economy showed signs of recovery in 2017-2018, amid significant fiscal and external imbalances. The medium-term outlook remains positive, assuming the new government maintains prudent macroeconomic policies, pursues a judicious borrowing policy, and implements planned structural reforms. The favorable medium-term growth outlook also assumes that sound macroeconomic management and structural reforms will strengthen investor confidence. The Government’s medium-term development strategy (July 2018-June 2023), the Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD), is designed around the priorities set forth in President Weah’s inaugural speech and State of the Nation address: (i) combatting corruption; (ii) improving efficiency and accountability in the public sector; (iii) promoting honesty and transparency in the private sector; (iv) narrowing infrastructure gaps, especially in the southeast; and (v) creating jobs, especially for young workers. The Country Partnership Framework emphasizes the importance of shifting the focus of the WBG program from being infrastructure intensive under the previous CPS toward a more balanced approach with greater attention to education, agriculture, economic empowerment of women and youth, and maternal and child health. WBG will support smallholder commercialization and private-sector investment in agribusiness by fostering productive business linkages among smallholder farmers, selected agribusiness firms, and business-development services—with a special focus on constraints faced by women and youth.
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Country Assistance Strategy Document 130753 OCT 26, 2018
The development objective of the Sustainable Low-Carbon Development in Orinoquia Region Project for Colombia is to improve enabling conditions for sustainable and low-carbon landscape planning and management in project targeted areas.
... See More + The project comprises of four components. The first component, integrated land-use planning and improved governance for deforestation control will support capacity building to strengthen policy and planning instruments considering historic and future drivers of agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and will contribute to improving state presence in areas affected by violence and illicit activities. It consists of following sub-components: (i) mainstreaming environmental considerations into land-use planning instruments and land tenure regularization processes at the regional and local levels in project targeted areas; and (ii) strengthening capacities for land-use regulation enforcement and deforestation control. The second component, sustainable land-use management will contribute to mitigate historical and expected increases in emissions due to unsustainable and or GHG-intensive land management practices. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening public and private sector coordination and engagement for targeting low carbon development goals; (ii) strengthening the capacity of relevant stakeholders for prioritization and implementation of practices, technologies, and approaches aligned with low-carbon and climate-resilience productive activities; and (iii) designing financing and non-financing incentives to promote the adoption of low carbon and sustainable practices and technologies. The third component, definition of emission reduction program and monitoring, reporting, and verification will strengthen institutional capacities and the enabling environment to accomplish biocarbon funds (BioCF’s) requirements related to carbon accounting and social and environmental safeguards. It consists of following sub-components: (i) developing the recipient’s capacity for robust monitoring, reporting, accounting, and verification of AFOLU emissions and removals; and (ii) preparation of the Orinoquia sustainable integrated landscape (OSIL) emission reductions program. The fourth component, project coordination, management, monitoring, and evaluation will finance training, travels, consultants, and operational costs to strengthen the institutional and implementation arrangements for the project’s day-to-day operations.
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This report provides an overview of the progress made in 2017 in implementing the Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP), a blueprint for climate action in Sub-Saharan Africa that the World Bank launched during the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in November 2015.
... See More + This report provides an update on resource mobilization, describes the climate co-benefits provided by the ACBP portfolio, and details implementation progress by ACBP cluster and component. In addition, to better measure and monitor results and inform future project design, it reports on two new pieces of analysis undertaken this year: a review of the ACBP contribution to implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Sub-Sharan Africa’s countries; and a review of the ACBP portfolio from the perspective of its contribution to resilience building (following the resiliencepathways approach).
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Carbon pricing plays an important role in tackling climate change as it requires the cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be considered in financial decisions.
... See More + This levels the playing field between emission-intensive and low-carbon economic activities, triggering more investments in low carbon technologies. Carbon pricing is therefore key to mobilizing the United States (U.S.) 700 billion dollars of incremental investments needed annually by 2030 to transition to a low-carbon economy. The current level of carbon prices is substantially lower than the level that the high-level commission on carbon prices found to be consistent with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. The report takes stock of the latest trends and developments in carbon pricing initiatives. It covers initiatives that explicitly apply a price on a unit of GHG emission, including emissions trading system (ETSs) - both cap-and-trade and baseline-and-credit systems, carbon taxes, offset mechanisms, and results-based climate finance (RBCF).
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