Publication: Lebanon Country Climate and Development Report
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2024-03-07
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2024-03-07
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The Lebanon Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aligns the country’s short-term recovery needs with resilient, low-carbon, long-term development, building on quantitative modeling-based analytics, existing research and country diagnostics, and extensive stakeholder consultations to study the effects of climate change on Lebanon’s recovery and development objectives.
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“World Bank Group. 2024. Lebanon Country Climate and Development Report. CCDR Series. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41159 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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