Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2007 Annual Review : Climate Change and Adaptation
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This edition of environment matters
arrives just as the international community embarks on a
two-year process to secure a new global framework to limit
the amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) entering the
atmosphere and devise ways to help developing countries
adapt to and prepare themselves for the effects of climate
change. At the World Bank, the author believe that climate
change, and developing countries' adaptation to it, is
a critical challenge of our time that must be integrated
into core development strategies. Changes in temperatures
and weather patterns will affect the frequency and severity
of rainfall, droughts, floods, and access to water, flood
protection, health, and the use of land. These impacts will
not be evenly distributed. The poorest countries and people,
those least responsible for climate change and least able to
cope with it, will suffer earliest and most due to their
geographical location, low incomes, and low institutional
capacity, as well as their greater reliance on
climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture. This is why
building up resilience to increasing climate variability is
the most significant climate challenge facing many
developing countries. But we believe that adaptation, while
necessary in and of itself, can also serve to meet the
development objectives of countries. Many appropriate
adaptive measures are consistent with good development
practice. They can improve the local environment, increase
resilience to current and future climate variability and to
natural disasters, and ease the dissemination of innovative
technologies. They can also reduce resource scarcity within
specific social groups or regions, thereby addressing some
of the principal causes of social unrest and violent strife.
In other words, climate action is development action.
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ADVANCING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, ADVERSE EFFECTS, ADVERSE IMPACTS, ADVERSE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AFFORESTATION, AGRICULTURAL LAND, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS, AGRICULTURE, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC SYSTEMS, ARID AREAS, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC MODELS, BENEFIT ANALYSIS, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, BOREAL FORESTS, CARBON, CARBON FOOTPRINT, CARBON OFFSETS, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CASE STUDIES, CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM, CLEAN ENERGY, CLIMATE, CLIMATE ACTION, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH, CLIMATE DATA, CLIMATE EFFECTS, CLIMATE IMPACTS, CLIMATE INFORMATION, CLIMATE PATTERNS, CLIMATE RISK, CLIMATE RISK ASSESSMENT, CLIMATE RISK INSURANCE, CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT, CLIMATE RISKS, CLIMATE SENSITIVITY, CLIMATE VARIABILITY, CLIMATE VULNERABILITY, CLIMATE-RELATED HAZARD, CLIMATE-SENSITIVE SECTORS, CLIMATES, CLIMATIC DISASTERS, CLIMATIC VARIABILITY, COAST, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL WATERS, COASTAL WETLANDS, COASTAL ZONE, COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT, COLORS, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK, CONSERVATION, CONSTRUCTION, CORAL REEFS, COST-BENEFIT ANALYSES, CROP LANDS, CROPS, CURRENTS, DAMS, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS, DESERTIFICATION, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DIKES, DOWNSTREAM COMMUNITIES, DROUGHT, DROUGHT CONDITIONS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, ECONOMICS, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEMS, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS CONTROL, EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION, EMISSIONS PATH, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENERGY PRODUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, EQUILIBRIUM, EVAPORATION, EXOTIC SPECIES, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FIRE MANAGEMENT, FISH, FISHERIES, FISHERIES MANAGEMENT, FLOOD CONTROL, FLOOD PROTECTION, FLOOD WATERS, FLOODING, FLOODS, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOREST, FOREST BIODIVERSITY, FOREST CARBON, FOREST COMMUNITIES, FOREST CONVERSION, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST ECOSYSTEM, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FOREST PROTECTION, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FOSSIL FUELS, FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, FUTURE CLIMATE VARIABILITY, GHG, GHGS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GLOBAL PRECIPITATION, GLOBAL WARMING, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION, GREENHOUSE GASES, GROUNDWATER, HABITATS, HUMAN ACTIVITIES, HUMAN ACTIVITY, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, HURRICANES, ICE SHEETS, IMAGES, IMPACT OF CLIMATE, IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, INVASIVE SPECIES, IPCC, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND USE, LAND USE CHANGE, LOW-CARBON, MANGROVES, METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES, METHANE, METHANE EMISSIONS, MITIGATION, MOSQUITO, MOSQUITO CONTROL, MOUNTAINS, NATIONAL SCALE, NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEGATIVE IMPACTS, NON-NATIVE SPECIES, OIL, OIL PRICES, OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, OVERGRAZING, PALMER DROUGHT INDEX, PHYSICS, PLANTATIONS, POLICY ENVIRONMENT, POLICY MAKERS, POLLUTION, POPULATION GROWTH, POTENTIAL EVAPORATION, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION PATTERNS, PUBLIC GOOD, PUBLIC HEALTH, RAIN, RAINFALL, RAINFALL EVENTS, RENEWABLE ENERGY, RESERVOIRS, RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, RISK MANAGEMENT, RIVER, SALINITY, SCIENTISTS, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA WALLS, SEDIMENT, SHORE, SHORELINES, STORMS, STRATEGY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, SURFACE WATER, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT, TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURES, TRADEOFFS, TROPICAL CYCLONES, UNEMPLOYMENT, VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER QUALITY, WATERSHED, WATERSHED PROTECTION, WATERSHEDS, WAVES, WEATHER CONDITIONS, WEATHER PATTERNS, WETLANDS, WILDLIFE, WIND