Environment

Applying Abatement Cost Curve for Low-Carbon Strategy

The Government of China is committed to reducing the country’s carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent between 2005 and 2020. The World Bank has been working with Changning District in Shanghai to develop and implement a low-carbon strategy based on CO2...

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Water Shortages Slow Energy Production Worldwide

The World Bank is launching a new initiative at the World Future Energy Summit and International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi that will help developing countries better plan and manage scaling-up energy capacity to meet rising demand, in tandem with...

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Oil Well Operators in Hart County, Ky., Sentenced for Violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act

Two oil well operators in Hart County, and Logsdon Valley Oil Co. Inc., were sentenced in United States District Court by Senior Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., for continued violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act, announced David J. Hale, United...

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Business group WBCSD warns APRIL: clean up or get out

APRIL, the second largest pulp and paper company in Indonesia, has been threatened with expulsion from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a coalition of some 200 international companies that claim to be committed to...

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