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Jobs in a Changing Climate: Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports Covering 93 Economies

The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) provide a crosscutting look at how countries’ development prospects, and the job opportunities they offer to their people, can…

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Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet

The report shows that more efficient resource use—like better nitrogen management and forest restoration—yields benefits that far exceed the costs. It also urges a shift to cleaner sectors and…

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Local Governments Climate Finance Instruments - Global Experiences and Prospects in Developing Countries

This joint publication of the World Bank and the UN Capital Development Fund aims to help cities and local governments better understand the various climate finance instruments and sources available…

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Rising to the Challenge: Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience. Building on what can be learnt from these initiatives, this report aims to frame the adaptation and resilience (A&R…

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Rethinking Resilience: Adapting to a Changing Climate

The publication, Rethinking Resilience, urges developing countries to adopt policies that empower individuals, households, farms, and firms to take proactive measures. Resilience measures should…

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Understanding Transport Resilience: Assessment Approaches and Tools

The report highlights two emerging tools that reflect recent advancements in the cost efficiency of resilience analysis:The Global Resilience Index (GRI), developed by the University of Oxford and…

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Just Transition Tool for Private Sector Activities

The Just Transition Tool for Private Sector Activities provides actionable guidance to policymakers for developing place-based economic strategies that leverage the private sector to deliver…

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Understanding Global Concessional Climate Finance 2024

According to the Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023, international concessional climate finance rose by 50% since 2019, reaching USD 81 billion in 2022. …

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Blended Finance and the Gender-Energy Nexus: A Stocktaking Report

This report, authored by Ayesha Bery and colleagues, reviews current practices in gender-responsive climate blended finance, focusing on the energy sector. It is structured in three parts: …

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Resilience Rating System: A Methodology for Building and Tracking Resilience to Climate Change

To help guide investment decisions and improve climate resilience in project design and outcomes, the World Bank Group has developed a Resilience Rating System (RRS), along with an accompanying…

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Climate Action Data (CAD) Trust Official Website

This is the official website of Climate Action Data (CAD) Trust.

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Guidance for Countries in Assessing ERC Projects (Download PDF version)

These Project Assessment Guidelines aim to provide a comprehensive and adaptable guide to identify and develop Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs) projects and investments in order to generate…

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Climate Action Data (CAD) Trust

Climate Action Data Trust is a decentralised metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonises all major carbon registry data to enhance transparent accounting in line with Article 6 of the…

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CVC Opportunities in Infrastructure

Opportunities for innovative revenues and CVC are rich and diverse. This section will provide examples of CVC opportunities in infrastructure drawn from various resources such as the World Bank’s…

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Sydney Airport 2021 Response to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

In 2015, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to review how the financial sector can take account of climate-related issues. The FSB established…

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ACI Resolution 3/2018 on resilience and adaptation to climate change

ACI members adopted a resolution (ACI Resolution 3/2018 on resilience and adaptation to climate change) in Brussels in June 2018 recognizing the potential impact of climate change on airport…

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Climate-resilient PPP: where are we?

There are several instruments and tools already used to address climate change risk in Indonesian PPP projects. In toll road projects, the PPP procurement team has been requiring bidders to consider…

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Africa Community Forum: Climate-Smart PPPs for a Green, Resilient and Inclusive Recovery

The combination of rapid urbanization and increasing vulnerability due to climate change is putting urgent pressure on the infrastructure of emerging and developing economies (EMDEs). At the same…

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Assessing Project Feasibility and Economic Viability

Implementing a project as a PPP only makes sense if the project itself is sound. Most governments therefore subject proposed PPP projects to the same technical and economic appraisal as any other…

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Climate Change and Natural Disasters

The risk of natural disasters affects infrastructure projects and must be considered throughout the project cycle. Climate change introduces additional challenges by increasing uncertainty and the…

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Infrastructure Canada, Climate Lens

Website of the Government of Canada, Infrastructure Canada. 

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Leveraging PPPs to tackle climate change – A new resource

With COVID-19 still dominating the news it may be easy to overlook another global crisis: the unprecedented extreme climate events during the past year that can be linked to climate change:…