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Adapting to Climate Change : Assessing World Bank Group Experience--Phase III of the World Bank Group and Climate Change

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dc.contributor.authorIndependent Evaluation Group
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T20:17:27Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T20:17:27Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues related to greenhouse gas mitigation. It was mainly concerned with the potential for energy price reform and energy efficiency policies to yield dividends in growth, fiscal savings, and climate change mitigation. The second volume examined project-level lessons related to greenhouse gas mitigation. This volume draws lessons from World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) engagement in climate change adaptation. Like its predecessors, but to an even greater extent, this evaluation has a strong focus on learning, as the Bank Group explores a newly defined agenda. Climate change adaptation has only recently captured widespread policy attention. In strong contrast to climate mitigation, whose progress can be tracked along a single global metric (the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases), adaptation takes many forms, is intensely local, and resists easy definition and measurement. To a much greater extent even than climate change mitigation, adaptation is intertwined with development. Thus this evaluation looks not only at activities explicitly labeled 'climate adaptation' but also at a selection of those that might be expected to be adaptive, even if not so labeled.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/21106
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/21106
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectAdaptation Benefits
dc.subjectAdaptation Efforts
dc.subjectAdaptation Projects
dc.subjectAdaptation to Climate
dc.subjectAdaptation to Climate Variability
dc.subjectAdapting
dc.subjectAdaptive management
dc.subjectadverse climate adverse effects
dc.subjectadverse effects of climate change
dc.subjectafforestation
dc.subjectagricultural insurance
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectallocation
dc.subjectaltitude
dc.subjectanthropogenic climate change
dc.subjectAnticipating climate change
dc.subjectatmosphere
dc.subjectatmospheric concentration
dc.subjectBasins
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectBiodiversity Conservation
dc.subjectCarbon
dc.subjectCarbon dioxide
dc.subjectCarbon Finance
dc.subjectcarbon storage
dc.subjectCase Studies
dc.subjectcatastrophic events
dc.subjectClean Energy
dc.subjectClimate
dc.subjectCLIMATE ADAPTATION
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectClimate Change Adaptation
dc.subjectclimate change forecasts
dc.subjectClimate Change Fund
dc.subjectclimate change impacts
dc.subjectclimate change issues
dc.subjectclimate change mitigation
dc.subjectclimate change risks
dc.subjectclimate conditions
dc.subjectClimate Data
dc.subjectclimate extremes
dc.subjectclimate goals
dc.subjectclimate impacts
dc.subjectClimate Investment
dc.subjectclimate mitigation
dc.subjectclimate modeling
dc.subjectClimate Models
dc.subjectclimate outcomes
dc.subjectclimate patterns
dc.subjectClimate Resilience
dc.subjectClimate Risk
dc.subjectClimate Risk Management
dc.subjectClimate risk screening
dc.subjectclimate risks
dc.subjectclimate science
dc.subjectclimate scientists
dc.subjectclimate sensitive
dc.subjectclimate stress
dc.subjectclimate system
dc.subjectclimate trends
dc.subjectClimate Variability
dc.subjectclimate vulnerability
dc.subjectclimate-proof
dc.subjectclimate-related disaster
dc.subjectclimate-related risks
dc.subjectclimatic conditions
dc.subjectclimatic stimuli
dc.subjectCo
dc.subjectCO2
dc.subjectCoast
dc.subjectcoastal areas
dc.subjectCoastal zone
dc.subjectCoastal zone management
dc.subjectCoastal Zones
dc.subjectconsequences of climate change
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectconvergence
dc.subjectcost-benefit
dc.subjectcost-benefit analysis
dc.subjectcrops
dc.subjectcyclones
dc.subjectdamages
dc.subjectdams
dc.subjectdikes
dc.subjectdisaster prevention
dc.subjectDisaster Relief
dc.subjectDisaster Risk
dc.subjectDisaster Risk Management
dc.subjectDisaster Risk Reduction
dc.subjectDisasters
dc.subjectdiscount rates
dc.subjectdonor community
dc.subjectDrought
dc.subjectDrought Mitigation
dc.subjecteconomic growth
dc.subjectecosystem
dc.subjectemission
dc.subjectemission scenarios
dc.subjectEmissions
dc.subjectEmissions from Deforestation
dc.subjectenergy efficiency
dc.subjectenergy infrastructure
dc.subjectenergy price
dc.subjectenergy use
dc.subjecterosion
dc.subjectestuaries
dc.subjectevaporation
dc.subjectEvapotranspiration
dc.subjectextreme climate events
dc.subjectExtreme Climatic Events
dc.subjectextreme events
dc.subjectextreme precipitation
dc.subjectextreme weather
dc.subjectfeasibility
dc.subjectfinancial products
dc.subjectfinancial resources
dc.subjectFinancial Risk
dc.subjectFinancial Risk Management
dc.subjectfinancial support
dc.subjectfinancial sustainability
dc.subjectfisheries
dc.subjectFlood
dc.subjectflood control
dc.subjectflood mitigation
dc.subjectFlood Risk
dc.subjectflooding
dc.subjectFloods
dc.subjectForest
dc.subjectForest Carbon
dc.subjectforestry
dc.subjectforests
dc.subjectFramework Convention on Climate Change
dc.subjectfuture climate change
dc.subjectGCM
dc.subjectGeneral Circulation Model
dc.subjectgeographic areas
dc.subjectGeographic Information
dc.subjectGeographic Information System
dc.subjectglacial lake
dc.subjectglacial lake outburst
dc.subjectGlobal Climate
dc.subjectGlobal Climate Change
dc.subjectGlobal Climate Model
dc.subjectglobal climate system
dc.subjectGlobal Environment Facility
dc.subjectgreenhouse
dc.subjectgreenhouse gas
dc.subjectgreenhouse gas emissions
dc.subjectgreenhouse gas mitigation
dc.subjectgreenhouse gases
dc.subjectgroundwater
dc.subjectgroundwater recharge
dc.subjecthousehold consumption
dc.subjecthuman activity
dc.subjecthydrological data
dc.subjecthydrology
dc.subjectimpacts from climate change
dc.subjectImpacts of Climate Change
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectInsurance Schemes
dc.subjectIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
dc.subjectinvestment decisions
dc.subjectIPCC
dc.subjectland management
dc.subjectLand Use
dc.subjectland use change
dc.subjectland uses
dc.subjectLivestock Insurance
dc.subjectlong-term climate change
dc.subjectmangroves
dc.subjectmarine resources
dc.subjectmeteorology
dc.subjectmicro-insurance
dc.subjectMitigation
dc.subjectNational Climate
dc.subjectnatural climate variability
dc.subjectoil production
dc.subjectparks
dc.subjectperformance standards
dc.subjectplantation
dc.subjectPortfolio
dc.subjectPrecipitation
dc.subjectprecipitation events
dc.subjectprecipitation patterns
dc.subjectrain
dc.subjectrainfall
dc.subjectrate of climate change
dc.subjectreduced groundwater
dc.subjectremote sensing
dc.subjectreservoirs
dc.subjectrisks from climate change
dc.subjectRiver
dc.subjectsatellite data
dc.subjectsea ice
dc.subjectsea level rise
dc.subjectstorm surge
dc.subjectstorm surges
dc.subjectStorms
dc.subjecttemperature
dc.subjecttemperature extremes
dc.subjecttotal damages
dc.subjecttropical cyclone
dc.subjecttropical forests
dc.subjectuncertainties
dc.subjectvegetation
dc.subjectvulnerability to climate change
dc.subjectvulnerability to climate variability
dc.subjectWatershed
dc.subjectWatershed Management
dc.subjectwaves
dc.subjectwetlands
dc.subjectwind
dc.subjectwind speed
dc.subjectwind speeds
dc.titleAdapting to Climate Change : Assessing World Bank Group Experience--Phase III of the World Bank Group and Climate Changeen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaClimate Change
okr.date.disclosure2012-11-02
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T12:26:10.437238Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.globalpracticeEnvironment and Natural Resources
okr.identifier.report73462
okr.language.supporteden
okr.topicEnvironment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Climate Change Economics
okr.topicScience and Technology Development::Science of Climate Change
okr.topicWater Resources::Wetlands
okr.unitDirector-General, Evaluation (IEGDG)
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