Publication: Honduras - Country Climate and Development Report
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Date
2023-05-16
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2023-05-16
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World Bank
Abstract
Honduras is highly vulnerable to
extreme natural hazards, which are expected to increase
because of climate change. These will have significant
consequences for all of Honduran society, affecting
important economic sectors and threatening food and water
security and human health. The impacts of climate change are
expected to disproportionately affect the poorest and most
vulnerable, such as indigenous peoples and afro‑descendants
(IPADs) and women. These impacts will likely compound
existing challenges such as migration, internal
displacement, and land conflicts and insecurity. Even though
Honduras’s contribution to global emissions is significantly
low, the country has opportunities to pursue low‑carbon
development that will create co‑benefits and foster
synergies with climate change adaptation, particularly in
the agriculture, water, forestry, energy, and transport
sector. This CCDR recommends focusing on a parallel approach
of a) cross‑sectoral recommendations in the short term that
allow for the creation of an enabling environment for
sectoral recommendations in the long term and long term,
while b) accelerating policy reforms and investments through
a phased approach for priority sectors. This phased approach
to sectoral action would help the country gradually enhance
ambition while also harnessing the enhanced institutional
capacities and increased enabling environment.
Citation
“World Bank. 2023. Honduras - Country Climate and Development Report. CCDR. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39820 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”