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to enable companies in the industrial sector and other energy consumers to adopt and utilize energy-efficient technologies, financed under commercial criteria by the Romanian Energy Efficiency Fund (FREE) and co-financiers.

The Project will support the Government's efforts to deepen reforms in the telecommunications and electricity sectors, by strengthening regulatory institutions and improving environmental management of the sectors' activities, fostering competition and increasing private participation, promoting

The overall objective of the Russian Federation Municipal Heating Project is to alleviate the financial burden on municipal governments associated with the supply of district heating to the local population.  The project aimed to achieve this by improving the operating efficiency of district hea

In 2002, about 38 percent of Central America's total land area was used as permanent pasture, and this area had expanded over the previous decade in the three project countries (Colombia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua) at a rate of between four and nine percent, mostly at the expense of tropical fores

By the second half of the 1990s, India's reforms in the areas of investment, trade, and finance, initiated in response to the 1991 crisis, had helped stimulate the economy. During the period 1994- 1997, the country experienced high average rates of economic growth of 7 percent.

The Ministry of Railways has been facing mounting competition from the expanding highway system. It faced the dual challenges of increasing capacity as well as increasing service quality while maintaining profitability.

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate self-sustaining, modern management of municipal solid waste through maximum collection and utilization of landfill gas (LFG) in the city and district of Liepaja.

This China Energy Conservation Project was designed to support the introduction of a market-based approach to financing energy conservation investments and energy performing contracting, in order to try and overcome some of the major impediments to energy conservation in China.  The project was

The global environmental objective of the project was to achieve large, sustained and growing increases in energy efficiency and associated reductions in growth of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants by introducing, demonstrating and disseminating new project financing concepts and mark

The Kiev District Heating Improvement Project was designed to:replace and increase heat production capacity to better meet existing and expected future demand, and to improve the reliability and service levels in the Kiev District Heating (DH) system; andto extend the life of, increase the effici