People in a Changing Climate: From Vulnerability to Action - Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports covering 72 economies

This summary report, the third in the series, presents key findings from the first three years of CCDRs, covering 72 countries and economies. First, it summarizes CCDR findings on the impacts of climate change on people and explores how putting people at the core of climate-development policies enhances their effectiveness and generates larger benefits.

Climate Resilience and PPPs

Many risks associated with climate change will be felt hardest by lower income countries, as their ability to prevent and respond to the impacts of climate change is limited. Against this background there is an urgent need for the development and finance of climate-smart infrastructure solutions. PPPs potentially provide a useful framework under which the public and private sectors can pool and coordinate their financial and technological resources more efficiently.

Disruption and PPPs

This is the main Landing Page for Disruption and PPPs in the Public-Private Partnership Resource Center. Disruption is all around us, and the Disruption and PPPs section display the broader context of disruptions that have in recent years increased, and that present unprecedented worldwide challenges, such as climate change, natural disasters, economic crises, disruptive technology and global pandemics such as Covid-19.

Demystifying Private Climate Finance

The report aims to increase policy-makers and climate negotiators understanding of the essentials of private finance, and it suggests and introduces a generic logic and approach – a sequence of questions – that climate negotiators and policy-makers should follow when debating, and ultimately designing, the public interventions required for the unlocking of at-scale private climate finance.

 

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Good Climate Finance Guide

This paper uses six criteria for ‘good climate finance’ and a positive deviance approach to draw lessons from six international climate funds and two development financing mechanisms to understand where climate finance is being delivered effectively to support locally led solutions. Based on this, it also presents recommendations for how climate finance could better support local actors to access and deliver the climate finance that they need to build their own climate and nature- positive solutions.

 

Accessing Climate Finance: A step-by-step approach for practitioners

This eighth handbook in the series addresses the needs which emerged during the ClimaSouth Climate Finance regional workshop held in Barcelona on 9 – 11 March 2016 at the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). The results of the study are presented in this handbook as a practical set of tools for key government and other stakeholders in partner countries to access climate finance. The tools focus on the preparation and assessment of project applications.