Publication: Croatia Country Climate and Development Report
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2025-10-20
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2025-10-24
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This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines the implications of climate change and climate policy for Croatia’s development objectives, priorities, and pathways. It identifies opportunities for the country to achieve both its development goals and its climate commitments through a coherent set of policies. The report lays out a combination of sectoral and economy-wide policy reforms and targeted investments in near- and medium-term decarbonization and adaptation measures designed to achieve more rapid, more inclusive, and greener development. The idea is to maximize synergies between climate and development objectives, while addressing trade-offs among policy objectives and key transition challenges. The CCDR is structured in five sections: chapter focuses on Croatia’s development context, including its priorities; its main economic challenges; the risks that climate change, disasters, and national decarbonization efforts create; and the opportunities that the climate transition opens up. Chapter 2 analyzes Croatia’s existing climate commitments and policies and analyzes the institutional framework for achieving the country’s climate and development ambitions. Chapter 3 explores pathways to achieving decarbonization and climate resilience. Using Croatia’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 (net zero by 2050 [NZ2050]) as a basis, the chapter analyzes the challenges of, and opportunities for, achieving (a) its decarbonization goals associated with the energy, transport, waste, agriculture, and forests sectors by charting a representative net-zero pathway to 2050 as well as (b) resilience to climate change and natural hazards in the water, agriculture, and tourism sectors and in cities. Chapter 4 explores the macroeconomic and distributional implications of climate transition. It assesses the transition’s financial and economic costs and benefits, placing it in the context of the constrained macro-fiscal environment, and proposes options to enhance fiscal capacity to fund the transition. It also analyzes the transition’s impacts on poverty, equity, and jobs and proposes avenues for addressing these and financing the transition. Chapter 5 concludes with prioritized policy and investment packages and actions that should be emphasized over the next 3–5 years to enable Croatia to seize opportunities and reduce risks associated with climate change while achieving its development goals.
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“World Bank Group. 2025. Croatia Country Climate and Development Report. CCDR Series. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/43895 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”
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