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Sep 14, 2016
How Business Can Insure Against Climate Risks
Insurance plays a vital role in protecting people, businesses, and public institutions against shocks, allowing them to transfer risks and purchase security. Insurers in advanced economies even act as financial intermediaries. In many emerging economies, however, insurance is still in a nascent stage. Yet it has the potential to become a critical tool for businesses to build operations that are resilient to climate change while also providing a source of economic growth. For insurance in emerging economies to take off, the public and private sectors must first lay the necessary groundwork.
English | 4 Pages - September - Note 11 | © IFC, 2016
Sep 14, 2016
How Data Tools Can Assess Climate Risks
Climate change doesn’t just threaten the environment, it poses risks to a country’s businesses and economy. Understanding these risks can be complex, yet there are a growing number of tools that can help businesses analyze how their operations will be affected. In order to integrate climate risk into their overall risk management models, companies will need a thorough understanding of how climate change can affect them. With it, they can then take steps to build resilience into operations.
English | 5 Pages - September - Note 10 | © IFC, 2016
Sep 14, 2016
Innovative Insurance To Manage Climate Risks
Severe storms, record heat waves, intense droughts, and floods—the impact of climate change rises every year and economic and financial losses rise with it. Insurance plays a major role in helping businesses in advanced economies mitigate the consequences of the changing climate and prepare for policy changes ahead. But insurance in emerging markets isn’t yet able to make the same contribution, despite the fact that natural disasters disproportionally affect people and firms in these countries. Recently, however, a number of new business and donor initiatives have begun to create innovative approaches to using insurance to address climate change.
English | 5 Pages - September - Note 9 | © IFC, 2016
Jan 20, 2016
A Solar Developer’s Guide to Pakistan
This guide provides background for those who are implementing or intending to invest in solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in Pakistan.
85 Pages | © 2016 IFC | Complimentary
Aug 10, 2015
Unlocking the Potential for Private Sector Participation in District Heating
This report analyzes barriers to and opportunities for private sector participation in district heating (DH) in the Western Balkan countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia, as well as in Mongolia and Ukraine.
70 pages | © August 2015 IFC | Complimentary|
Jun 20, 2015
Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants: A Project Developer’s Guide
This guidebook aims to enhance the understanding of how to successfully develop, finance, construct, and operate utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. It targets project developers entering a market and is also meant to serve as a reference source for contractors, investors, government decision makers, and other stakeholders working on PV projects in emerging markets.
208 pages | © June 2015 IFC | Complimentary
Jun 17, 2015
Innovations in Green Credit Markets
Jun 17, 2015
Decarbonizing Development
Dec 31, 2014
Harnessing Energy from the Sun: Empowering Rooftop Owners
This white paper aims to create awareness – among stakeholders including policy makers, utilities and regulators – of the opportunities and challenges of the rooftop solar market. It focuses on implementation options, including public-private partnerships, and discusses practical issues related to planning and implementing rooftop solar initiatives. It discusses policy and technical issues that can help stakeholders make informed decisions, especially in terms of meeting local objectives.
130 pages | © 2014 IFC | Complimentary
Nov 30, 2014
Supporting Smallholder Banana Farmers in Meeting International Certification Standards in the Philippines
IFC partnered with Unifrutti, an international fruit exporter with a local presence in the Philippines, to help build the management capacity of local farmers and provide technical training that helps growers maintain soil quality, recycle water, and produce quality crops.
Region: East Asia & the Pacific / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Nov 23, 2014
Addressing Water Security in the Agricultural Sector in India
IFC worked with Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., an IFC investment and advisory client, to conduct a Water Footprint Assessment which helps companies reduce water-related risks, improve water efficiency, and mitigate social and environmental impact.
Region: South Asia / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Jun 30, 2014
Best Practices Guide for Geothermal Exploration
This second edition of a Best Practices Guide for Geothermal Exploration is aimed at project developers and their service providers to outline the state of the art tools and techniques for geothermal exploration.
196 pages | © June 2014 IGA & IFC | Complimentary
Jun 24, 2014
Stories of Impact in Agribusiness
This publication presents 16 different examples of how IFC has worked with private sector clients across the world, typically combining finance and advice. This powerful combination of money and knowledge helps our clients not only sustain but also grow their businesses, thereby paving the way for robust job creation, growth, and positive environmental and social benefits.
79 pages | © June 2014 IFC | Complimentary
Jun 12, 2014
Waste Heat Recovery for the Cement Sector: Market and Supplier Analysis
This report analyzes the current status of Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) technology deployment in developing countries and investigates the success factors in countries where WHR has become widely spread.
81 pages | © June 2014 IFC | Complimentary|
May 31, 2014
"SUSTAIN: Cutting-edge business solutions" magazine in Agribusiness
How can companies across the world achieve stronger performance while addressing sustainability challenges? How can they learn from each other? And how can IFC help by leveraging its unique vantage point at the intersection of business and development? SUSTAIN addresses these questions by offering a global platform for a conversation on cutting-edge business solutions among thought leaders and pioneers from the private sector, international organizations, academia, and the World Bank Group.
60 pages | © May 2014 IFC | Complimentary
Nov 4, 2013
Promoting Sustainable Investing in South Africa’s $500 Billion Pension Fund Market and Beyond
IFC has worked with the Principal Officers Association of South Africa (POA) and engaged the South African retirement industry to create the “Responsible Investment and Ownership: A Guide for Pension Funds in South Africa.”
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa / Strategic Priority: Climate Change
Aug 1, 2013
Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets
This Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets proposes a six-step process to assist private sector companies in emerging markets identify cumulative impacts and guide them in the effective design and implementation of measures to manage such cumulative effects.
102 pages | © August 2013 IFC | Complimentary
Jun 30, 2013
Manual for Performance-Based Contracting by Water Utility Companies in Brazil
This manual is a practical tool to promote the development of Performance-Based Contracts with the intention of helping water utility companies improve their operational efficiency levels, reduce their water losses, and increase the quality of their services.
68 pages | © June 2013 IFC | Complimentary
Jun 18, 2013
Public-Private Solar Project Generates Power, Reduces Carbon Emissions in India
The state of Gujarat in India, which enjoys more than 300 sunny days a year, has a long-term goal of making its capital, Gandhinagar, a solar-powered city. As a first step, Gujarat turned to IFC to help with an innovative 5 MW rooftop solar project to add power generating capacity, develop contractual models for further solar projects, and demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of rooftop-based solar power.
Region: South Asia / Strategic Priority: Climate Change
Jun 18, 2013
Improving Competitiveness and Reducing Pollution through Resource Efficiency in Russia
IFC is working with Russia’s industrial sector to increase investments in resource efficiency technologies that reduce both costs and pollution. So far, IFC has worked with 58 entities, including companies such as UAZ-Metallurgia and Kuibyshev Azot, and has facilitated $312 million in resource efficiency investments, allowing companies to mitigate environmental damage, increase profits, become more competitive, and attract more capital.
Region: Europe & Central Asia / Strategic Priority: Manufacturing / Key Topic: Climate Change
Jun 18, 2013
Increasing Access to Affordable and Modern Off-grid Lighting
Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program, aims to create a market for safe, affordable, modern off-grid lighting products that directly benefit low-income households and small businesses. The program supports companies entering this market by providing them with business and quality assurance guidance and access to finance.
Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Global / Strategic Priorities: Climate Change, Infrastructure
Jun 18, 2013
Removing Market Barriers to Support Clean Energy Development in Albania
IFC is working with local and international Small Hydro Power Plant (SHPP) developers, and local government and finance institutions to develop Albania’s renewable energy market, remove existing barriers for investments, and improve related regulatory frameworks.
Region: Europe & Central Asia / Strategic Priorities: Climate Change, Infrastructure
Jun 18, 2013
Making Bangladesh’s Agricultural Sector More Sustainable
IFC is working with leading seed companies in Bangladesh to promote more sustainable farming practices, such as the production, distribution, and adoption of stress-tolerant seeds. As a result of IFC's engagement, over 60,000 farmers were exposed to practices which increase productivity, facilitate access to supply chains and are environmentally-friendly.
Region: South Asia / Strategic Priority: Agribusiness
Jun 12, 2013
IFC Sustainability Resources Brochure 2013
This brochure highlights sustainability resources produced or co-produced by IFC's Environment, Social and Governance Department (CES), the Sustainable Business Advisory (SBA) and the Climate Business Department (CBG). These resources include publications, tools, and learning & training programs. While not exhaustive, this brochure offers a navigation point for users on some of IFC's key sustainability resources.
36 pages | © June 2013 IFC | Complimentary
Jun 5, 2013
Creating Opportunities in East Asia and the Pacific: Inclusive Economic Development
This issue highlights how IFC works with the private sector to promote inclusive economic development in the region, where more than 35 percent of the world's poor live. The brochure showcases real life stories of how people in China, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and other countries benefit from IFC projects, which help create jobs, increase their income levels, and make economic growth as equitable as possible.
38 pages | © June 2013 IFC | Complimentary
