Acting Now For a Safer Future

As representatives from government, businesses, civil society, and elsewhere gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, the World Bank continues to work with its development partners amid a growing urgency to tackle the climate crisis. Learn more about this work.

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COP27: Join Us Live November 6-18, 2022

The world comes together in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, amid growing urgency to tackle the climate crisis, and will bring together leaders and national delegations, representatives from businesses, multilateral institutions, civil society and youth. Join the World Bank Group for discussions and live events over two weeks. View the schedule and set reminders to follow our series of high-level conversations.

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Immersive Story: Adapting to climate change in East Asia and the Pacific

The East Asia and Pacific region faces serious and diverse climate challenges and the World Bank Group continues to stand with these countries and they address these challenges. In fiscal year 2022, 46% of World Bank commitments contributed to climate action. Find out how Indonesia, the Marshall Islands, and Vietnam are highlighting how our work is supporting their fight to adapt to climate change in this new immersive story.

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Climate and Development: An Agenda for Action

On average, investing 1.4% of annual GDP could reduce emissions in developing countries by 70% by 2050 and boost resilience, according to a new report from the World Bank Group. However, investment needs are far greater in lower-income countries, which are more vulnerable to climate risk, and often exceed 5% of GDP.

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Given the short-term potency of methane, cost-effective interventions to reduce methane emissions should be an immediate priority for the sectors with the largest emissions. The agriculture, energy, sanitation and waste sectors are collectively responsible for 90-95% of global anthropogenic sources of methane.

The World Bank Group (WBG) has a long record of engagement on methane reduction across the key areas of agriculture, energy, and sanitation and waste. The table below provides examples of extensive WBG work in this area, including various types of project activities that will reduce methane emissions.

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Education is a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Developing countries have made tremendous progress in getting children into the classroom and the majority of children worldwide are now in primary school. Nevertheless, some 260 million children are still out of primary and secondary school. Learn More.

By 2030, an additional 68.8 million teachers will need to be recruited just for primary and secondary: 20 million are required to expand access to primary and secondary school and 49 million are needed to replace those who leave the workforce. In addition, the childcare workforce needs to expand by 32 million globally to address the childcare gap. Read More.