Adapting to Climate Change : Assessing World Bank Group Experience--Phase III of the World Bank Group and Climate Change

This paper constitutes the third and final volume of a series of assessments of the World Bank Group's engagement with climate change issues. The first focused on World Bank involvement in policy issues related to greenhouse gas mitigation. It was mainly concerned with the potential for energy price reform and energy efficiency policies to yield dividends in growth, fiscal savings, and climate change mitigation. The second volume examined project-level lessons related to greenhouse gas mitigation. This volume draws lessons from World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) engagement in climate change adaptation. Like its predecessors, but to an even greater extent, this evaluation has a strong focus on learning, as the Bank Group explores a newly defined agenda. Climate change adaptation has only recently captured widespread policy attention. In strong contrast to climate mitigation, whose progress can be tracked along a single global metric (the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases), adaptation takes many forms, is intensely local, and resists easy definition and measurement. To a much greater extent even than climate change mitigation, adaptation is intertwined with development. Thus this evaluation looks not only at activities explicitly labeled 'climate adaptation' but also at a selection of those that might be expected to be adaptive, even if not so labeled.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Independent Evaluation Group
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	Adaptation Benefits, Adaptation Efforts, Adaptation Projects, Adaptation to Climate, Adaptation to Climate Variability, Adapting, Adaptive management, adverse climate adverse effects, adverse effects of climate change, afforestation, agricultural insurance, Agriculture, allocation, altitude, anthropogenic climate change, Anticipating climate change, atmosphere, atmospheric concentration, Basins, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Finance, carbon storage, Case Studies, catastrophic events, Clean Energy, Climate, CLIMATE ADAPTATION, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, climate change forecasts, Climate Change Fund, climate change impacts, climate change issues, climate change mitigation, climate change risks, climate conditions, Climate Data, climate extremes, climate goals, climate impacts, Climate Investment, climate mitigation, climate modeling, Climate Models, climate outcomes, climate patterns, Climate Resilience, Climate Risk, Climate Risk Management, Climate risk screening, climate risks, climate science, climate scientists, climate sensitive, climate stress, climate system, climate trends, Climate Variability, climate vulnerability, climate-proof, climate-related disaster, climate-related risks, climatic conditions, climatic stimuli, Co, CO2, Coast, coastal areas, Coastal zone, Coastal zone management, Coastal Zones, consequences of climate change, Conservation, convergence, cost-benefit, cost-benefit analysis, crops, cyclones, damages, dams, dikes, disaster prevention, Disaster Relief, Disaster Risk, Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disasters, discount rates, donor community, Drought, Drought Mitigation, economic growth, ecosystem, emission, emission scenarios, Emissions, Emissions from Deforestation, energy efficiency, energy infrastructure, energy price, energy use, erosion, estuaries, evaporation, Evapotranspiration, extreme climate events, Extreme Climatic Events, extreme events, extreme precipitation, extreme weather, feasibility, financial products, financial resources, Financial Risk, Financial Risk Management, financial support, financial sustainability, fisheries, Flood, flood control, flood mitigation, Flood Risk, flooding, Floods, Forest, Forest Carbon, forestry, forests, Framework Convention on Climate Change, future climate change, GCM, General Circulation Model, geographic areas, Geographic Information, Geographic Information System, glacial lake, glacial lake outburst, Global Climate, Global Climate Change, Global Climate Model, global climate system, Global Environment Facility, greenhouse, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas mitigation, greenhouse gases, groundwater, groundwater recharge, household consumption, human activity, hydrological data, hydrology, impacts from climate change, Impacts of Climate Change, income, Insurance Schemes, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, investment decisions, IPCC, land management, Land Use, land use change, land uses, Livestock Insurance, long-term climate change, mangroves, marine resources, meteorology, micro-insurance, Mitigation, National Climate, natural climate variability, oil production, parks, performance standards, plantation, Portfolio, Precipitation, precipitation events, precipitation patterns, rain, rainfall, rate of climate change, reduced groundwater, remote sensing, reservoirs, risks from climate change, River, satellite data, sea ice, sea level rise, storm surge, storm surges, Storms, temperature, temperature extremes, total damages, tropical cyclone, tropical forests, uncertainties, vegetation, vulnerability to climate change, vulnerability to climate variability, Watershed, Watershed Management, waves, wetlands, wind, wind speed, wind speeds,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21106
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