HARARE, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank (WB) has warned that climate change could erode up to 12 percent of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) annually if the country does not implement robust measures to tackle the phenomenon. In its latest Zimbabwe economic update report launched ...
The World Bank has released a report that warns climate change-driven increasingly-severe weather, sea-level rise and storm surges will threaten the food security and livelihoods of millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.Cat Fitzpatrick...
SINGAPORE, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- If countries, sectors and firms do not transit to a low-carbon economy and become climate resilient, climate change will have a drastic impact on the competitiveness of these economies. This is the warning from Benoit Bosquet, the World Bank's regional director...
TheKenyaCountryClimateandDevelopmentReport(CCDR)waspreparedbyamultisectoralWorldBankGroupteamledbyDijiChandrasekharanBehr,DominickRevelldeWaal,andNaomiMuthoniMathenge,underthesupervisionofIainShukerandAbhaPrasad,andthedirectionofAyatSoliman,HolgerKray,andAsadAlam. CCDRWorldBankGroupteammembersincluded: •Onagriculture...
As World Bank Group President Jim Kim said in response to China’s announcement on Friday: “Carbon pricing is not a panacea, but it is the necessary step to fast track low carbon growth and resilient development. China’s leadership is the kind of strong signal that the political process ...
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“The statistics in the World Bank report are suitably shocking and I hope they force world leaders to sit up and take notice,” said Mohamed Adow of Christian Aid. “The Paris deal needs to support the poor and vulnerable communities to cope with unavoidable climate crises better, and to ...
The report looked at three developing regions of the world—sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Climate migrants are people who are forced to move within their country because of water scarcity, crop failure, rising sea levels and storm surges due to climate change. ...
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...
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