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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. The findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …
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This report provides actionable advice on how to design and implement fiscal policies for both development and climate action. Building on more than two decades of research in development and environmental economics, it argues that well-designed environmental tax reforms are especially valuable...
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This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. The report identifies eight sets of levers to drive climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policy, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology...
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This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an outsized role in catalyzing climate action worldwide for nearly 30 years. By looking back at the history of climate and carbon finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of...
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This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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middle-income countries to pursue immediate development needs and thus prepare for later periods when adaptation needs and …
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The case for scaling up mitigation efforts is urgent and has been made repeatedly in the last few years whether denominated in gigatonnes of needed reductions in greenhouse gas emissions per year or tens of 'gigadollars' of needed annual investments in zero and low carbon technologies and...
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adaptation. The operational focus will be on improving knowledge and capacity, including learning by doing. The framework will …
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adaptation. The operational focus will be on improving knowledge and capacity, including learning by doing. The framework will …
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This paper is one component of a global study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) in developing …, injuries and deaths from extreme weather events (flooding), and a greater prevalence of malnutrition. Adaptation measures … is limited to conventional public health adaptation activities, with a focus on malaria and diarrhea. This study also …
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