World Bank Data in Google Search Results

World Bank, Google
http://tinyurl.com/ydj7ept (press release)
http://datafinder.worldbank.org/
[UN Pulse]  A special Google public data search feature will show numeric results for 17 World Development Indicators (WDI) sourced to the World Bank with data beginning in 1960, containing a link to Google’s public data graphing tool. Google’s feature lets users see and compare country-by-country statistics and offers customized graphs. Read [...]

Climate Finance

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by the The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19676/climate_finance.html
[RSS feed] The finance of climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries represents a key challenge in the negotiations on a post-2012 international climate agreement. Finance mechanisms are important because stabilizing the climate will require significant emissions reductions in both [...]

Lock-in Effects of Road Expansion on CO2 Emissions : Results from a Core-periphery Model of Beijing

World Bank / by Alex Anas and Govinda R. Timilsina,
http://tinyurl.com/ylnjuu8
[Abstract] In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the long run. One manifestation of such an outcome is that if extensive road investments occur, urban [...]

“Revenue Management” Effects Related to Financial Flows Generated by Climate Policy

World Bank / by Jon Strand
http://tinyurl.com/yzd6c2g
[Abstract] This paper discusses possible macroeconomic implications for low-income countries of increased revenue inflows that may follow from implementing certain global greenhouse gas mitigation policies. Such revenue sources include revenue from emissions offset mechanisms, direct investments, and financial transfers that form parts of possible future mitigation [...]

Technology in the UN Climate Change Negotiations: Moving Beyond Abstraction

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University Policy Brief / by Morgan Bazilian
http://tinyurl.com/yacakdu
[Abstract] This brief considers the technology negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) within the wider context of low-carbon energy technology. In doing so, it focuses on how technology issues can be effectively embedded within a potential agreement at the [...]

Sectoral Approaches in Electricity : Building Bridges to a Safe Climate

OECD
http://www.sourceoecd.org/9789264068728
(RFFers will need to access the SourceOECD username and password on the library’s welcome page top left frame under “databases by title”.)
[Abstract] Electricity accounts for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible [...]

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation : Policy Guidance

OECD
http://www.sourceoecd.org/9789264054769 (RFFers will need to access the SourceOECD username and password on the library’s welcome page top left frame under “databases by title”. Print copy is $40.)
[Abstract] The negative impacts of climate change will hit poor people and poor countries disproportionately, and further compromise the achievement of their development objectives. Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into [...]

Climate Volatility Deepens Poverty Vulnerability in Developing Countries

Environmental Research Letters / by Syud A. Ahmed, Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Thomas W. Hertel v4 034004 (8pp)  ( doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/034004)
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1748-9326/4/3/034004/
[Abstract] Extreme climate events could influence poverty by affecting agricultural productivity and raising prices of staple foods that are important to poor households in developing countries. With the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events [...]

An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change

Copenhagen Concensus / by Carlo Carraro, Francesco Bosello and Enrica De Cian
http://tinyurl.com/mkx7ga
[From a Reuters article by Alister Doyle]  Helping developing nations adapt to climate change will bring greater economic benefits than a focus on deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study commissioned by Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial Danish researcher.
Spending [...]

Lock-in Effects of Road Expansion on CO2 Emissions : Results from a Core-periphery Model of Beijing

World Bank / by Alex Anas and Govinda R. Timilsina
http://tinyurl.com/l7kv3y (be patient, it loads slowly)
[Abstract] In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the long run. One manifestation of such an outcome is that if extensive [...]