CLIMATE CHANGE ; World Bank: Change May Bring Widespread PovertySTOCKHOLM - Climate change could push more than 100 millionpeople into extreme poverty by 2030...Ritter, Karl
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved a loan of $750 million to Colombia, to help the country become more resilient in the face of climate change by buoying up renewable energy efforts and reducing carbon emissions, the bank said on Monday. The loan looks to boost develop...
But efforts to protect the poor, such as generally improving access to health care and social safety nets, and targeted measures to upgrade flood defenses and deploy more heat-tolerant crops could prevent most of the negative consequences of climate change on poverty, the bank said. “Absent suc...
COLOMBO, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's vulnerability to risks arising from climate change could cost the island country 7.0 percent of GDP, a World Bank official, quoted by the government information department, said on Wednesday. World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives ...
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BEIRUT, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon needs to invest around 7.6 billion U.S. dollars between 2024 and 2030 in energy, water, transport, and solid waste to mitigate the impact of climate change on its development path, according to a report released by the World Bank on Wednesday. ...
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briefly describing the interaction between climate change and economic development, as well as the respective instruments of the Climate Change Treaty and the World Bank, this paper identifies several windows through which the obligations set out by the Climate Change Treaty affect the World Bank. The...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Beijing’s answer to the World Bank, is set to unveil a “climate action plan” this week that will become its top priority and spur a sharp increase in financing. “The global fight against climate change will be won or lost in Asia,” said Danny...
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