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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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Agriculture, Water, and Land Policies to Scale Up Sustainable Agrifood Systems in Georgia : Synthesis Report and Way Forward
World Bank Group - 2022
This Synthesis report summarizes the main constraints and opportunities that Georgia faces in amplifying the contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction, food security and nutrition, and climate resilience...
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Constraints to Sustainable, Efficient, and Resilient Irrigation Systems in Georgia - What is a Possible Way Forward? : Irrigation Sector Policy Note
World Bank Group - 2022
requires the rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems and the establishment of institutional organizations that makes … it sustainable. This policy note on the irrigation sector supports the World Bank-led analytical study on Agricultural … April to July 2021, in close collaboration with the main stakeholders of the irrigation sector in Georgia and the services …
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Arab Republic of Egypt - Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project and Farm-Level Irrigation Modernization Project : Project Performance Assessment Report
World Bank Group - 2022
Ratings for the Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately … moderately satisfactory. Ratings for the Farm-Level Irrigation Modernization Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately … following lessons: (i) In irrigation systems, such as the Nile Delta's, that are organized along a hierarchical canal network …
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2014 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2015
This joint report on MDB Climate Finance captures a particular context of activities that Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) carry out in developing and emerging economies. The context is built on the premise that development finance is being provided in a world shaped by climate change. This...
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