Building Resilient Futures: A data revolution for climate-vulnerable populations
By World Bank The world is facing an era of compounded crises, from pandemics to conflicts to intensifying extreme weather events. For low-income and vulnerable households, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected states, these crises are devastating, erasing development gains, and…
A bigger Picture for Climate Finance by Jennifer Sara
COP29 will kick off in Baku in less than a month. Among the topics for these negotiations of the Parties is to set a new climate finance goal to replace the previous target originally set in 2009. The landscape around…
Investing in Human Capital for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
By World Bank Blog Agriculture, the backbone of many developing economies, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Farmers worldwide are adapting their practices to cope with fluctuating temperatures, erratic rainfall patterns, and the increasing frequency of extreme…
How Policy Crediting can Accelerate Climate Action
To understand what policy crediting is and how it works in terms of results-based climate finance, we sat down with Nuyi Tao, Senior Climate Finance Specialist with the World Bank’s Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF) and Maksudjon Safarov, Senior Energy…