dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2024-10-23T16:17:54Z
dc.date.available	2024-10-23T16:17:54Z
dc.date.issued	2024-10-23
dc.description	The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development. They help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation and resilience, while delivering on broader development goals. CCDRs build on data and rigorous research and identify main pathways to reduce GHG emissions and climate vulnerabilities, including the costs and challenges as well as benefits and opportunities from doing so. The reports suggest concrete, priority actions to support the low-carbon, resilient transition. As public documents, CCDRs aim to inform governments, citizens, the private sector and development partners and enable engagements with the development and climate agenda. CCDRs feed into other core Bank Group diagnostics, country engagements and operations, and help attract funding and direct financing for high-impact climate action.	en
dc.description	The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development. They help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation and resilience, while delivering on broader development goals. CCDRs build on data and rigorous research and identify main pathways to reduce GHG emissions and climate vulnerabilities, including the costs and challenges as well as benefits and opportunities from doing so. The reports suggest concrete, priority actions to support the low-carbon, resilient transition. As public documents, CCDRs aim to inform governments, citizens, the private sector and development partners and enable engagements with the development and climate agenda. CCDRs feed into other core Bank Group diagnostics, country engagements and operations, and help attract funding and direct financing for high-impact climate action.	fr
dc.description	The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development. They help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation and resilience, while delivering on broader development goals. CCDRs build on data and rigorous research and identify main pathways to reduce GHG emissions and climate vulnerabilities, including the costs and challenges as well as benefits and opportunities from doing so. The reports suggest concrete, priority actions to support the low-carbon, resilient transition. As public documents, CCDRs aim to inform governments, citizens, the private sector and development partners and enable engagements with the development and climate agenda. CCDRs feed into other core Bank Group diagnostics, country engagements and operations, and help attract funding and direct financing for high-impact climate action.	es
dc.description.abstract	Guinea-Bissau is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, with the highest natural capital per capita in West Africa (US3,874 dollars per capita), which could be leveraged for sustainable and resilient growth. However, Guinea-Bissau faces significant development hurdles, such as high poverty rates, political instability, and economic challenges, including an over-reliance on cashew nuts. Rural poverty has increased, and the nation's infrastructure, education, and health care systems are underdeveloped. Climate change poses a severe threat, potentially impacting agriculture, fisheries, and infrastructure. Without adaptation, it could lead to a significant cut in real GDP per capita (minus 7.3 percent by 2050) and increase in poverty (with up to over 200,000 additional poor by 2050, that is, 5 percent of the expected population, in the worst scenario). The country's low greenhouse gas emissions are expected to rise, mainly due to agriculture and land-use changes, with deforestation being a major contributing factor. Although Guinea-Bissau is a low emitter, it has high mitigation ambitions, targeting a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The Nationally Determined Contribution outlines significant climate actions, with initiatives focused on forest conservation, sustainable agriculture, and community development. However, the country's political instability, institutional weaknesses, and limited financial resources pose challenges to implementing these climate commitments, which depend heavily on external funding. The financial sector's underdevelopment and vulnerability to external shocks limit its ability to support green investments, though reforms could enhance resilience. Guinea-Bissau must consider its climate financing as development financing and vice-versa, engage the private sector, and integrate climate goals with national development plans to ensure a sustainable future. Concessional climate financing is vital due to the underdeveloped financial sector and the government’s limited borrowing capacity. Addressing Guinea-Bissau's vulnerability to climate change and its structural issues requires a cohesive approach that integrates development and climate strategies. This could involve improving governance, diversifying the economy, protecting natural capital, developing human capital, and investing in sustainable agriculture and infrastructure. The transition to a more sustainable and inclusive development pathway that supports economic growth is possible, but requires focusing on key strategic sectors, enhancing institutional capacity, and creating the conditions to mobilize finance. As a highly vulnerable country, there are myriad needs in the different sectors; however, to be more efficient and effective, Guinea-Bissau should prioritize actions in a few sectors, especially actions on biodiversity, agriculture, and social protection. Low carbon development, especially in energy and forestry sectors, could provide cost-efficient solutions and attract climate finance, including from the private sector, which will support the overall development agenda.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099102224154531593/P1794681409e540651a2ad131742ed4f21a
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42283
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42283
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	CCDR Series
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	WEST AFRICA
dc.subject	RURAL POVERTY
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject	GHG
dc.subject	FOREST CONSERVATION
dc.subject	SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
dc.subject	POLITICAL INSTABILITY
dc.title	Guinea-Bissau Country Climate and Development Report	en
dc.type	Report
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okr.crossref.title	Guinea-Bissau Country Climate and Development Report
okr.date.disclosure	2024-10-23
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-25T02:24:41.984813Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-10-22T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Country Climate and Development Report
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099102224154531593/P1794681409e540651a2ad131742ed4f21a
okr.guid	099102224154531593
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okr.region.administrative	Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.country	Guinea-Bissau
okr.sector	Other Public Administration
okr.statistics.combined	1904
okr.statistics.dr	099102224154531593
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okr.theme	Inclusive Growth,Mitigation,Environmental Health and Pollution Management,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Economic Policy,Air quality management,Economic Growth and Planning,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Biodiversity,Coastal Zone Management,Environmental policies and institutions,Climate change,Urban and Rural Development,Adaptation,Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,Flood and Drought Risk Management,Disaster Risk Management,Structural Transformation and Economic Diversification
okr.topic	Environment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.unit	AFR ENR PM 1 (SAWE1)

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