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Learning from Tropical Cyclone Seroja : Building Disaster and Climate Resilience in Timor-Leste
World Bank Group - 2021
. The disaster affected all 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste, caused at least 44 fatalities, damaged critical infrastructure … as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. It will serve as inputs to a more detailed Post-Disaster …
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The Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation in Georgia : A Tool for the Coastal Zone Adaptation and the Nationally Determined Contributions
World Bank Group - 2021
The cost of environmental degradation (COED) report focuses on Georgia's coastal zone. Georgia's coastal zone is crucial to the national economy but has been affected by substantial environmental degradation. This report estimates the impact of degradation that occurred in 2017, as a result of...
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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
-level rise and storm surges. The specific impacts on each city will depend on the actual changes in climate experienced (for … disaster risk reduction (DRR) in cities. DRR efforts already familiar to many may be used as a platform from which to develop … climate change adaptation plans. In practical terms, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation can be integrated in many …
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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
greatest health threat facing humanity (WHO 2021). Now, more than 195 governments have included climate change mitigation and …
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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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Strengthening Moldova's Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience : Facing Current Issues and Future Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
the country - it has strengthened regional collaboration and knowledge sharing on disaster risk management (DRM). Local … systems. In this DRM country policy note, chapter one provides an overview of Moldova's disaster and climate risk profile …. Chapter two reviews the current institutional and legal framework for disaster risk management and financing, including …
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Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mocha, May 2023, Myanmar : Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Report
World Bank Group - 2024
Extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha made landfall as a Category 4-equivalent cyclone in the Saffir-Simpson hurricane … Global RApid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology to estimate damages arising from Cyclone Mocha. GRADE is a … assess damages following the impact of Extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha in Myanmar during May 2023 …
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