Power More With Less: Scaling Up Energy Efficiency for Growth and Energy Security

Energy efficiency is a transformative, low-cost solution that can fast-track access to affordable and secure energy and boost economic growth. Amid soaring power demand, driven in part by air conditioners, heavy industry, and, increasingly, data centers needed to power artificial intelligence, energy efficiency can help countries avoid overspending on new energy infrastructure, importing fuels, and taking on more debt for their energy sectors.  

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New Guarantee Platform Delivers Efficiency, Simplicity to Boost Impact

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Beginning July 1, the World Bank Group’s one-stop guarantee platform will bring together all of its guarantee products and experts.
  • The platform will help provide transparency and certainty for the World Bank Group’s clients across the guarantee process, with a better client experience.
  • Streamlining these offerings will help maximize the limited capital available for impactful development in emerging markets and developing economies.
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eC2: Resource Efficiency Advisory to Textile Supply Chain Factories

Deadline: 27-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective:  IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development supplychaininstitution focused exclusively on the private sector. Working with private enterprises in about 100 countries, we use our capital, expertise, and influence to help eliminate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. Addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation are among key missions of IFC.

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