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Climate Change: Get Ready to Adapt!
WB President Jim Yong Kim’s recent Washington Post op-ed “Make Climate Change a Priority” warned that “global warming imperils all of the development gains we have made”. Jim Kim drew on a recent...
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New Climate Report Emphasizes Urgency
Bangkok is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, home to more than eight million people. However, a new report released by the World Bank today paints a grim picture for the Thai capital. It notes that,...
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Building Back the Big Easy: Lessons from New Orleans’ Recovery from Hurricane...
For the East Asia & Pacific Transport, Urban & Disaster Risk Management team of the World Bank, a recent study trip to New Orleans was an eye-opener about how even the richest society in the...
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Celebrating Success, Ongoing Challenges, and Opportunities that face the...
Today (September 16) is International Ozone Day. This day offers the international community the opportunity to laud the achievements of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone...
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Countries Push Forward with Greenhouse Gas Market Plans
On the outskirts of Marrakesh’s historic medina, amid bustling construction and new housing developments, the Partnership for Market Readiness’ governing group gathered this month for its final...
View ArticleMerging the Two Sides of Climate Action, with a Little Help from Dumbledore
Dr. Pachauri's speech at the Robert Goodland Memorial Lecture Listening to Dr. RK Pachauri deliver the first Robert Goodland Memorial Lecture at the World Bank last month, I could not help thinking of...
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Do the IPCC Report Messages on Transport Provide a Strong Rationale for Action?
In April, the preeminent scientific body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the contribution of Working Group III to the 5th Assessment Report on climate change...
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New open online course: from climate science to action
Over the past two years, the World Bank’s flagship climate change report series Turn Down the Heat and its complementary free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) have helped bring important climate...
View ArticleInternational transfers of mitigation to achieve the goals of the Paris...
More than a year has passed since the signing of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which developed, emerging and developing countries across the...
View ArticleThousands Join the MOOC on Climate Change
More than 10,000 people from around the world have already signed up for the World Bank Group’s first MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) on climate change, an initiative that appears to be tapping...
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