Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …. Socioeconomic drivers play a major role: optimistic baseline scenarios (rapid and inclusive growth with universal access to basic …

Although Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, it has a relatively low number of natural hazards. However … comparable size would incur. Brazil faces an increasing risk of natural disasters, in particular floods and landslides. The … objective of the study is to strengthen capacity of geohazard disaster resilience of federal highway infrastructure in Brazil …

This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The …, estimates for aggregate metals and energy differ by an order of magnitude throughout the income spectrum: from a low of 0.2 for …

Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, in the development community, the interaction of energy, environment, and … doing business. It is also affecting school attendance, particularly among girls. Inefficient energy sources can also pose … energy-efficient technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions. At the G8 summit in Gleneagles, the World Bank Group was asked …

Total energy expenditures for the Indian population between 1983 and 2012 are estimated to shed light on the debate … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … activity levels. Despite a significant drop in adult physical activity levels, total energy expenditures are flat overall …

-down model with a bottom-up engineering model for the energy sector. The study uses meeting China's pledges under the Paris … are sensitive to the assumptions and existing or planned policies on energy technologies considered in the bottom-up model …