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Carbon Pricing for Climate Action
World Bank Group - 2021
Carbon prices are needed to incorporate climate change costs into economic decision making. Carbon pricing should be included as part of a broader arsenal of tools to achieve domestic climate targets, but it is not a silver bullet: other policy instruments and investments (for example, public...
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Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in Cities
World Bank Group - 2011
Cities face significant impacts from climate change, both now and into the future. These impacts have potentially serious consequences for human health, livelihoods, and assets, especially for the urban poor, informal settlements, and other vulnerable groups. Climate change impacts range from an...
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Valuing Climate Adaptation Helps Us Orient Our Compass Toward Effective and Resilient Pathways : Climate Adaptation Costing in a Changing World
World Bank Group - 2024
The impacts of climatic shocks are already being felt across Europe and are bound to intensify in line with further climate change. Even rapid and far-reaching progress on decarbonization cannot avoid the extent of climate change that is already locked in due to past emissions. These trends call...
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Climate Adaptation in Uzbekistan : Landscape Restoration Opportunities
World Bank Group - 2024
Land use plays a pivotal role in Uzbekistan's development, and embracing sustainable agriculture offers a promising pathway to achieving middle-income status. This report aims to identify hotspots of land degradation and declining productivity along with areas of adaptation opportunity where...
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Impact of Climate Change in Health in Colombia and Recommendations for Mitigation and Adaptation
World Bank Group - 2023
Climate change has been called the most important threat to human health in the 21st century. It is estimated that if thetemperature rises and its impact on the other climatic variablescontinues unchanged, it will kill more than 83 million people (1 percent of the world's population) in the next...
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Indonesia Economic Prospects, December 2023 : Climate Action for Development
World Bank Group - 2023
Indonesia has been successful in navigating the macroeconomic fallout from asynchronous global shocks. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth remains strong though the economy is yet to fully recover to its pre-pandemic trajectory. This is consistent with labor market trends, which show a recovery...
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Kenya Country Climate and Development Report
World Bank Group - 2023
The Kenya Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aims to identify the impact of climate change on Kenya … back Kenya's aspiration of being an upper-middle-income country and reducing poverty in the next decade. In a business ….25 percent by 2050 compared to the baseline. Climate impacts Kenya’s human, natural and physical capital and the impacts vary by …
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Kenya Country Climate and Development Report
World Bank Group - 2023
The Kenya Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aims to identify the impact of climate change on Kenya … back Kenya's aspiration of being an upper-middle-income country and reducing poverty in the next decade. In a business ….25 percent by 2050 compared to the baseline. Climate impacts Kenya's human, natural and physical capital and the impacts vary by …
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A Roadmap for Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2021-2025
World Bank Group - 2022
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) the rapidly changing climate is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather-related events. The year 2020 saw the most catastrophic fire season over the Pantanal region and a record number of storms during the Atlantic cyclone season. Eta...
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Tanzania
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Tanzania assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Tanzania perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Tanzania on 1) their views regarding the …
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