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Carbon pricing is achieving critical mass as governments learn from one another
Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, speaks on a panel at the Business & Climate Summit with the president of Japan's New Energy & Industrial Technology Development...
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Emissions trading in China: Early lessons from low-carbon pilots
A local emissions exchange in China. Photo: Lasse Ringius/IFC China, the biggest source of CO2 emissions globally, accounts for more than 27 percent of the world's emissions. China is the first...
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Drum roll…Presenting the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant!
Also available in: العربية | Spanish Noor concentrated solar power plant is expected to supply 1.1 million of Moroccans with 500 MW of power by 2018. Photo: World Bank Concentrated Solar Power is the...
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We have an agreement in Paris: So, what’s next for the private sector?
Wind turbine farm in Tunisia. Photo: Dana Smillie / World Bank It's been two months now since the historic climate change conference, COP21, wrapped up in Paris, concluding with 195 countries pledging...
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New bike lanes and metro stations in Bucharest paid for by carbon credits
Also available in: Russian Over the years, Bucharest has improved its cycling infrastructure. Photo: Stelian Pavalache Over the past year, people living in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, are...
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Clean energy, not coal, is the solution to poverty
It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion people live without power today, denying...
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Making the links between carbon markets in a post-Paris world
[[tweetable]]We are witnessing a pivotal moment in a decades-long effort to combat climate change.[[/tweetable]] Last year in Paris, world leaders came together for the first time to commit to keeping...
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Reaffirming our commitment to carbon pricing and climate action
Second Annual Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition High-Level Assembly. Photo: World Bank When the world united around the historic Paris climate agreement, in 2015, the message was clear: It’s unfair...
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G7 recognizes need for deep emissions cuts. Now for action
Also available in: Español | Français This weekend, the leaders of the G7 committed to a series of actions that mark their first serious recognition of the economic transformation that is ahead of us....
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Marching forward: China is creating the world’s largest market-based carbon...
China – the world largest emitter of greenhouse gases– is implementing a national carbon market in 2017 During his visit to Washington last week, China’s President Xi Jinping confirmed that the...
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