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 finance (CF) has been one of the Bank Group’s first and longest engagements for mitigating climate change. Carbon finance as a subcomponent of climate finance is a generic term used for the revenue streams that can be generated by sale of project-based GHG emission reductions or from payments involving carbon sequestration and storage from forests.
... See More + The World Bank Group launched CF with interest to support development of a global carbon market that will reduce the cost of achieving GHG emission reductions and facilitate sustainable development. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the role and contributions of the WBG in CF in relation to the needs and priorities of its clients and its potential comparative advantages and draw lessons to inform the WBG’s strategic direction in CF. The evaluation will look at the four dimensions to assess the potential comparative advantages of the WBG in CF. On the WBG portfolio, the focus will only be on the CF portfolio and will not include the broad scope of climate finance. The primary audience for this evaluation is the WBG’s Board of Directors, senior management and staff involved in carbon finance, climate mitigation policy and related operations. Other stakeholders include the donor sponsors providing trust funds to the WBG. These stakeholders will have an incentive to know about the performance and effectiveness of the carbon finance activities, the key drivers of success, how those drivers changed over time, and how future operations can be improved. The evaluation will also be of interest to climate policy evaluation specialists and researchers as well as policymakers and regulatory agencies who want to understand the impact of WBG operations on international carbon finance and how carbon finance operations or similar GHG mitigation policies could be made more effective. Bilateral and multilateral institutions may also be interested to know about what works in carbon finance. Host country governments, civil society and NGOs will also have an interest in this evaluation, especially in terms of how such interventions contribute to reducing GHG emissions and create opportunities for sustainable social and economic development at different levels.
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China is experiencing rapid urbanization, with projected 300 million people migrating to urban areas over the next 20 years. As a result, energy use in buildings is projected to triple by 2030 contributing to rising CO2 emissions.
... See More + The project supports energy efficiency improvements such as lighting HVAC systems and insulation in commercial and government buildings; renewable energy applications (roof-top solar photovoltaics, solar water heaters, ground source heat pumps) in buildings; distributed generation from renewable energy and natural gas to provide power, cooling, and heating services to buildings.
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The development objective of the Desk-top Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for an Eskom Pilot Carbon Capture Project for South Africa is to advance the work that already has been carried out in South Africa in identifying carbon capture storage sites from the current theoretical storage, including associated capacity building and regulatory requirements for the test injection.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) the associated infrastructure applied for during the environmental impact assessment (EIA) included all associated infrastructure such as a water treatment works, a wastewater treatment works, access roads, railway line, water supply pipelines, a coal stockyard, an ash disposal facility, a coal and ash conveyor system, and water storage facilities; (2) independent environmental control officers (ECOs) are appointed as per the environmental assessment (EA) conditions and their key role is to ensure project compliance to authorizations through site inspections, audits, review of method statements, etc. and reporting of compliance reports to the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA); and (3) compliance to the various environmental approvals is a key to Kusile hence various methodologies to ensure compliance are implemented.
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