World Bank2024-07-092024-07-092024-07-09https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41842The 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.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.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.In the third year of implementation, this midterm progress report on the World Bank1 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Roadmap 2021–25 (hereafter, called the Roadmap) aims to provide an update on the status of climate action across the World Bank portfolio of activities in a dynamic regional context. The Roadmap was launched in 2021 and provides a galvanizing framework for World Bank–supported activities to accelerate climate action in the MENA region. This progress update on the WBG MENA Climate Roadmap is amid a broader regional context. Over the past few years, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have made positive changes in support of climate action, although significant challenges remain toward achieving green and climate-resilient development. The impacts of climate change and fossil fuel reliance are becoming visible across a region that is already burdened by population growth, protracted conflicts and forced displacement, a tightening fiscal space, and water scarcity. Policy makers in MENA have taken bold steps for the regionwide prioritization of low-carbon and resilient pathways. Countries rich in fossil fuel resources have committed to reducing the industry’s carbon footprint by developing circular carbon economy approaches, adopting new technologies, implementing ambitious sustainable transport projects, and committing to net zero emissions from domestic energy consumption. Similarly, countries suffering from the physical effects of climate change have developed policies and plans for climate resilience at both national and subnational levels.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOMENACLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONCLIMATE ROADMAPReportWorld Bank10.1596/41842