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The Green Jobs Advantage: How Climate-friendly Investments Are Better Job Creators

Working Papers |
2021
| Global

This paper compares job creation per dollar from various types of green investments vs. unsustainable investments. It also explores how to promote good jobs that have fair wages, job security, opportunities for career growth, safe working conditions, and are accessible for all. 

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Low Carbon Development: A Paradigm Shift Towards a Green Economy in Indonesia

Report |
2019
| Indonesia

This report finds that a low carbon growth path for Indonesia can deliver an average GDP growth rate of 6% annually until 2045. It would unlock an array of economic, social and environmental benefits, including reducing extreme poverty, generating additional better-paid jobs, and avoiding deaths due to reduced air pollution.

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Integrating National Policies to Deliver Compact, Connected Cities: An Overview of Transport and Housing

Working Papers |
2017
| Global

This report explores the ways in which urban policy sectors are integrated (or fragmented) in ten case study countries: China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis is based on the most recent and authoritative national-level policy documents. 

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Green Investment Banks: Innovative Public Financial Institutions Scaling up Private, Low-carbon Investment

Working Papers |
2017
| Global

This paper describes the relatively new phenomenon of publicly-capitalized green investment banks and examines why they are being created and how they are mobilizing private investment. 

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Ensuring New Infrastructure is Climate-Smart

Working Papers |
2015
| India

About US$90 trillion in infrastructure investment is needed globally by 2030 to achieve global growth expectations, particularly in developing countries. To achieve this, infrastructure investment needs to be both scaled up and climate objectives need to be integrated due to climate risks. The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate recommends that G20 and other countries adopt key principles ensuring the integration of climate risk and climate objectives in national infrastructure policies and plans. 

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