World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives Dr. Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough said that according to a recent World Bank report launched last week in Colombo, rising temperatures and changing monsoon rainfall patterns from climate change could cost Sri Lanka 7.0 percent of GDP and depr...
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...
CLIMATE CHANGE ; World Bank: Change May Bring Widespread PovertySTOCKHOLM - Climate change could push more than 100 millionpeople into extreme poverty by 2030...Ritter, Karl
World Bank Approves $750 Million Climate Change Loan to Colombia More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Pollutant foam generated by a river full of waste is blown by the wind next to houses, in Mosquera, Colombia April 27, 2022. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters...
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. ...
What we’re doing right now is we’re so rapidly changing the climate, for the first time in the world’s history people can see the impact of climate change. Greater storms, greater floods, greater heatwaves, extreme sea-level rise. ...
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MANILA, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Climate change is taking a heavy toll on Filipinos' lives, properties and livelihoods, and might hamper the country's ambition of becoming an upper middle-income country by 2040, according to a World Bank report on Wednesday. ...
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...