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Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World : Climate Strategies for Fossil Fuel-Dependent Countries
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ISBN: 1464813418 Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This book is the first stocktaking of what the decarbonization of the world economy means for fossil fuel+ "dependent countries. These countries are the most exposed to the impacts of global climate policies and, at the same time, are often unprepared to manage them. They depend on the export of oil, gas, or coal; the use of carbon-intensive infrastructure (for example, refineries, petrochemicals, and coal power plants); or both. Fossil fuel+ "dependent countries face financial, fiscal, and macro-structural risks from the transition of the global economy away from carbon-intensive fuels and the value chains based on them. This book focuses on managing these transition risks and harnessing related opportunities. Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World identifies multiple strategies that fossil fuel+ "dependent countries can pursue to navigate the turbulent waters of a low-carbon transition. The policy and investment choices to be made in the next decade will determine these countries' degree of exposure and overall resilience. Abandoning their comfort zones and developing completely new skills and capabilities in a time frame consistent with the Paris Agreement on climate change is a daunting challenge and requires long-term revenue visibility and consistent policy leadership. This book proposes a constructive framework for climate strategies for fossil fuel+ "dependent countries based on new approaches to diversification and international climate cooperation. Climate policy leaders share responsibility for creating room for all countries to contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement, taking into account the specific vulnerabilities and opportunities each country faces.


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Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This report, which focuses on three regions - Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world's population - finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people - or around 2.8 percent of the population of these three regions - could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the slow-onset impacts of climate change. They will migrate from less viable areas with lower water availability and crop productivity and from areas affected by rising sea level and storm surges. The poorest and most climate vulnerable areas will be hardest hit. These trends, alongside the emergence of "hotspots" of climate in- and out-migration, will have major implications for climate-sensitive sectors and for the adequacy of infrastructure and social support systems. The report finds that internal climate migration will likely rise through 2050 and then accelerate unless there are significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and robust development action.


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Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): The World Bank

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This report brings a much-needed focus to the nexus between climate change, migration and developmentin three regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Its startling conclusion is that theymay have to cope with more than 143 million internal climate migrants by 2050 unless concerted actionis taken at the national and global levels.Internal, rather than cross-border, migration is the report’s central focus for good reasons. There is growingrecognition among researchers that more people will move within national borders to escape the effects ofslow-onset climate change, such as droughts, crop failure, and rising seas.The number of climate migrants could be reduced by tens of millions as a result of global action to reducegreenhouse gas emissions and with far-sighted development planning. There is an opportunity now to planand act for emerging climate change threats.

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