Abbreviations and Terminology; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Executive Summary; Management Response; Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE); Statements by the External Review Panel: Climate Evaluation, Phase I; 1 Introduction, Scope, and Motivation; Figures; Tables; 2 National Policies and Climate Change; Boxes; 3 World Bank Operations and Climate Change; 4 Subsidies and Energy Pricing; 5 Efficiency Policies; 6 Natural Gas Flaring; 7 Findings and Recommendations; Appendixes; Endnotes; References
Summary
Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. The World Bank, with a newly-articulated Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change, must confront these entangled threats in helping its clients to carve out a sustainable growth path. This evaluation assesses the Bank's experience with key win-win policies in the energy sector
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127)
