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World Bank Studies Support $10B Water Project for Dead Sea
2013-03-11 19:36:55| ENR.com: Headline News
Five-year analysis of options to replenish the shrinking sea and boost regional water and power options is set to wrap in June, but environmentalists fear profound impacts.
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World Bank Urges African Agriculture Rethink
2013-03-06 03:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: - The World Bank is urging African governments to retool their agriculture policies, particularly to include a far greater focus on agribusiness as a critical driver of future development. The bank is now projecting that African agriculture could triple in economic size in coming years, topping a trillion dollars by 2030, powered by massively increasing domestic and international demand. With Africa by some counts the world's fastest-growing economy, middle-class demand for food is set to quadruple...
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World Bank pledges more efforts to combat climate change
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chinaorg: World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Friday pledged that the World Bank was committed to tackling climate change "more than anything else." World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. [File photo] "What we have to realize is that climate change is not a future threat. It is here with us today," Kim said at a special event titled "Connect4Climate: Right Here, Right Now" to celebrate creative youth engagement in the effort to combat climate change. "I want you understand that in a world...
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World Bank Is Committed to Forest Communities
2013-02-18 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Bank: Here at the World Bank we believe that independent internal evaluation is central to strengthening our work. Rigorous, evidence-based evaluation informs the design of global programs and enhances the development impact of partner and country efforts. The World Bank Groups Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has undertaken a review of the implementation of the 2002 Forest Strategy. The strategy emphasized the positive developmental benefits of forest conservation and management, while strengthening...
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World Bank preparing a new, expanded approach to climate change
2013-02-15 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has instructed his staff to develop a new approach to climate change, a proposal he intends to bring to the board this spring. At his direction, bank staff members are quietly working up a blueprint that, sources say, is likely to include plans for expanding the bank's work in carbon markets, ending fossil fuel and other subsidies and making cities more resilient to climate change. But according to board staff and others knowledgeable about the process, the...
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