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Improving Energy Efficiency in Ploiesti, RomaniaThe Tool for Rapid Assessment of City
 Energy (TRACE) is used for conducting rapid assessments of
 energy use in cities. It helps prioritize sectors with
 significant energy savings potential, and identifies
 appropriate energy efficiency interventions across six
 sectors-transport, municipal buildings, water and waste
 water, public lighting, solid waste, and power and heat. It
 is a simple, low-cost, user-friendly, and practical tool
 that can be applied in any socioeconomic setting. This
 report is based on the implementation of the TRACE tool in
 Ploiesti in February 2013, and it outlines ideas on what the
 city could further do to improve its energy efficiency
 performance. It details the analysis carried out and the
 recommendations derived as a result, for energy efficiency
 action plan, district heating maintenance and upgrade,
 non-motorized transport, public transport development,
 parking restraint measures, traffic restraint measures,
 municipal buildings audit and retrofit, and street lighting
 timing program.
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-CityChina is experiencing rapid and large
 scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban
 environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese
 Government has fully recognized these challenges and is
 aiming to promote more sustainable urbanization in line with
 the objectives of the eleventh five year plan, which calls
 for 'building a resource-conserving and environmentally
 friendly society'. Various initiatives are being
 pursued to support this objective, both at the national and
 local levels. At the local level, cities have responded by
 developing 'eco-cities', which aim to promote a
 more sustainable urbanization model. More than one hundred
 eco-city initiatives have been launched in recent years. One
 such initiative is the Sino-Singapore Tianjin eco-city. The
 purpose of this report is to review the Sino-Singapore
 Tianjin Eco-City (SSTEC) project from a comprehensive
 perspective with a view to achieving the following principal
 objectives: (i) create a detailed knowledge base on the
 project; (ii) provide policy advice on key issues,
 especially those related to the Global Environment Facility
 (GEF) project; (iii) estimate SSTEC's Greenhouse Gas
 (GHG) emission reduction potential; and (iv) contextualize
 the project among the broader ecological urban development
 initiatives in China. Broadening the World Bank's
 engagement beyond the GEF was assessed as important given
 the project's complexity, and its potential to shed
 light on China's sustainable urban development challenges