The overall goal is to connect key public and private sector stakeholder groups who influence technology transfer within, between and to recipient country markets with the view to foster increased market uptake of sustainable alternatives that help to protect the global environment. The project aims to facilitate identification of environmental synergy and implementation of integrated “win/win” solutions by encouraging thorough assessment of all available options. Major activities to enable fully informed investment, management, and policy decisions will include: 1.

The proposed project would complement ongoing IDA support (through the Energy sector Adjustment Credit) to the Government strategy for energy sector reform and liberalization that is spelled out in the Letter of Sector Development Policy issued in 1997.

The Baltic Sea Regional Project (BSRP) objective is to increase sustainable biological productivity, improve coastal zone management and reduce agricultural non-point source pollution through the introduction of ecosystem-based approaches for land, coastal and marine environmental management.

The project would assist the Government of Colombia in conserving and sustainably managing globally outstanding biodiversity in the high mountain regions of the Colombian Massif

This project, Part I of a two-part project, proposes a five-year demonstration program to operate eight fuel cell buses (FCBs) for public transport in Cairo under actual revenue service conditions. The major objective is to introduce this zero emission bus technology in Egypt as a long-term solution to the severe urban transport pollution problem in Cairo and to reduce global GHG emission.