Climate Change and the World Bank Group : Phase One - An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms

This evaluation is the first of a series that seeks lessons from the World Bank Group's experience on how to carve out a sustainable growth path. The World Bank Group has never had an explicit corporate strategy on climate change against which evaluative assessments could be made. However, a premise of this evaluation series is that many of the climate-oriented policies and investments under discussion have close analogues in the past, and thus can be assessed, whether or not they were explicitly oriented to climate change mitigation. Two sets of win-win policies are perennial topics of discussion in the energy sector: reduction in subsidies and energy-efficiency policies, particularly those relating to end- user efficiency. This report looks at these, and at another apparently win-win topic: gas flaring. Flaring is interesting because of its magnitude, the links to pricing policy and to carbon finance, and the existence of the World Bank-led initiative to reduce flaring.

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Main Author: Independent Evaluation Group
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2009
Subjects:ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR POLLUTION, AIR QUALITY, APPLIANCE STANDARDS, APPROACH, ATMOSPHERE, BALANCE, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, BUILDING CODES, CARBON CAPTURE, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, CARBON EMISSION, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON MARKET, CARBON OFFSET, CARBON TAX, CEMENT, CEMENT PLANT, CERTIFIED EMISSION REDUCTION, CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM, CLEAN ENERGY, CLEAN TECHNOLOGY, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, CLIMATE POLICY, CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, COAL, COAL PLANT, COMBUSTION, COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS, COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHTS, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, CONDITIONALITY, CONNECTED HOUSEHOLDS, COOLING TOWERS, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DEMAND FOR ENERGY, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DIESEL, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DISTRICT HEATING, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC VALUE, ECONOMICS, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEMS, EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, EFFICIENCY INVESTMENTS, EFFICIENCY POTENTIAL, EFFICIENT EQUIPMENT, EFFICIENT LIGHTING, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY PRICE, ELECTRICITY PRICES, ELECTRICITY PRICING, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, ELECTRICITY TARIFF, EMISSION, EMISSION PERFORMANCE, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS REDUCTION, EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, EMPIRICAL BASIS, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, END-USE, END-USER EFFICIENCY, ENERGY CONSERVATION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ENERGY DEMAND, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENERGY EMISSIONS, ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY INTENSITY, ENERGY NEEDS, ENERGY PLANNING, ENERGY POLICIES, ENERGY POLICY, ENERGY PRICE, ENERGY PRICES, ENERGY PRICING, ENERGY PRODUCTION, ENERGY RESEARCH, ENERGY SAVINGS, ENERGY SERVICE, ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY, ENERGY SOURCES, ENERGY SUPPLY, ENERGY SYSTEMS, ENERGY TAXES, ENERGY USE, ENERGY USERS, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION, EXPENDITURES, EXTERNAL COSTS, EXTERNALITIES, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FLUORESCENT LIGHTS, FORESTRY, FOSSIL, FOSSIL FUEL, FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION, FUEL, FUEL PRICE, FUEL PRICES, FUEL SWITCHING, FUEL TYPE, GAS EMISSION, GAS FLARING, GAS FLARING REDUCTION, GASES, GENERATING CAPACITY, GENERATION, GENERATION CAPACITY, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL EMISSIONS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL INTEREST, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, GREENHOUSE GASES, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEAT, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HYDROPOWER, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IMPROVEMENTS IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY, INCOME, INCOME LEVELS, INSURANCE, INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY, INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY, KILOWATT-HOUR, LAND USE, LNG, METHANE, NATURAL GAS, NITROGEN, NITROGEN OXIDES, NITROUS OXIDE, OIL, OIL PRICE, OIL PRODUCTION, OPEC, ORGANIZATION OF PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES, OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES, PER CAPITA ENERGY, PER CAPITA INCOME, PERVERSE INCENTIVES, PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, PIPELINE, POLICY MAKERS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POWER, POWER COMPANY, POWER GENERATION, POWER PLANT, POWER PRICES, POWER PRICING, POWER SECTOR, POWER SHORTAGES, POWER SYSTEM, PRICE OF GAS, PRICE VOLATILITY, PRICES OF COAL, PRODUCTIVITY, PROMOTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY, PUBLIC GOOD, PUBLIC GOODS, REDUCING EMISSIONS, RENEWABLE ENERGIES, RENEWABLE ENERGY, RENEWABLE GENERATION, RESOURCE USE, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION, SECURITY OF ENERGY SUPPLY, SOCIAL COSTS, STEAM HEAT, SULFUR, SULFUR DIOXIDE, SULFUR OXIDES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, TAXATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, THERMAL POWER, THERMAL POWER PLANTS, TONS OF CARBON, TRANSPORT COSTS, TURBINE, UTILITIES, VALUE OF ENERGY, WASTE, WHOLESALE PRICE, WIND,
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/2639
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