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The report warns that the world will heat up by 4 degrees by the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change. Read More »
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The consequences of the global phenomenon of climate change are especially acute in the Arab world. The speed with which the climate is now changing has outstripped traditional coping mechanisms. Read More »
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The Framework provided a road map for climate action for the World Bank Group (WBG) over fiscal years 2009–11, setting out the WBG’s objectives, principles, and major initiatives. Read More »
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International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual recriminations between rich and poor countries, constricted by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by...
This paper examines the effects of climate change on poverty through the relationship between indicators of climate change (temperature and rainfall change) and municipal level gross domestic product, and ...
In the first post-transition decade after the fall of communism, Europe and Central Asia (ECA) moved its economy from plan to market. In the second decade, the 2000s, it moved from social division to inclusion....
To ensure sustainable and optimal use of its common property natural resources, Mexico will need to strengthen its focus on enhancing stewardship in three key sectors-forests, water, and energy resources. The key ...
The optimal timing, sectoral distribution, and cost of greenhouse gas emission reductions is different when abatement is obtained though abatement expenditures chosen along an abatement cost curve, or through...
This report builds on reviews of available methodologies, tools, and practices for greenhouse gas analysis, and summarizes the outcomes of pilot studies. Read More »
The book highlights climate change adaptation options devised by national experts and a World Bank team for each of the four countries – Albania, Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) Macedonia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan. Read More »