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This activity report presents how the World Bank supports countries to address development and climate change challenges. The approach includes a broad range of assistance through a combination of financial and other resources. In addition, the document briefly introduces possible future options and strategies.

This analytical report provides a review of legal and institutional frameworks for 28 transboundary surface water, groundwater and marine water systems covering the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The report also considers climate change adaptation knowledge in the various water basins analyzed. It is intended to provide information that can be used to support further research and analysis, with the ultimate goal of identifying a set of common elements of good governance for transboundary freshwater and marine water bodies as well as groundwater systems.

This analytical report provides a briefing to the financial world on current and emerging avenues for business activity in forest-carbon and highlights roles and barriers for financial institutions to become involved. It underscores the importance of the commitment of the private sector and financial institutions toward the implementation of REDD+, noting that the overall investment needed for implementation of REDD+ activities exceeds public capabilities. According to the study, private sector participation in REDD+ and deforestation activities can lead to a win-win scenario for the finance sector and governments, as projects offer lucrative investment opportunities, while protecting biodiversity and livelihoods.

This analytical report reviews trends in growth, employment and decent work in LDCs, highlighting challenges and opportunities for structural transformation, job creation and poverty eradication. It also contains a section on implications of climate change on the agriculture sector in LDCs. It underscores that poor countries, communities and persons are least able to adapt to climate change and reduce its immediate negative impacts on their lives. It notes that, in particular, sub-Saharan Africa, many poor island States and other food-insecure countries are at the most risk from the effects of climate change.

This technical document discusses the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and focuses on the equitable distribution of CDM projects. This article documents that if the traditional analysis of pure numbers of projects per country is replaced by more relative figures, employment of the mechanism is becoming remarkably equal, even in Least Developed Countries.

This analytical report highlights that the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are positioned to jump-start the transition to a green economy by continuing to develop low-carbon, labour-intensive agriculture and community-based forestry, sustainable practices that have existed for decades. Developed and emerging countries, meanwhile, face substantial costs of “decarbonisation” and costs related to retiring inefficient fossil fuel-based technologies. The report includes examples of achievements in a range of economic sectors, including energy and agriculture, and through government, private sector and civil society initiatives.

This first report of the International Resource Panel presents basic facts and figures on natural resource flows worldwide, as well as four country studies, which show that consumption of natural resources is still rising rapidly. Drawing on these data, the report attempts to outline the issues that now need to be addressed to decouple material and energy flows from social and economic progress.

This activity report summarizes cooperative activities with UN entities and intergovernmental organizations, to contribute to the work under the Convention. It addresses: activities initiated by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB); specific areas of cooperation; and collaborative initiatives and programmes. In particular, it highlights collaboration among the UNFCCC Secretariat and various UN and intergovernmental organizations on: transfer; biodiversity, issues related to lands and desertification, and land-use and forest-related issues; finance; technical assistance to developing countries; mitigation; and gender.

This manual provides a forest governance guidance framework with applications for developing countries’ efforts for REDD+. It includes a checklist for identifying potential problems in the governance of forest resources. The framework calls for grading performance in six areas: accountability, effectiveness, efficiency, fairness, participation and transparency. The approach aims to help avert fraud, ineffective projects and corruption and misappropriation of funds during the implementation of REDD+ initiatives.

This manual  is offered as a primer to countries to enable them to better assess the level and nature of assistance they will require to catalyze climate capital based on their unique set of national, regional and local circumstances. It serves as a companion manual to a comprehensive UNDP toolkit on policy and financing options to catalyze climate capital.

This policy document discusses the development of bioenergy and both opportunities and risks for food security. It highlights that it could revitalise the agriculture sector, foster rural development and alleviate poverty, not least by improving rural access to sustainable energy. But if not managed sustainably, it could seriously threaten food security, hindering access to food for some of the most vulnerable.

This policy document stresses that climate change and expanding biofuel production is likely to lead to greater competition for access to land. For the millions of farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and forest dwellers with no formal land tenure rights, this increased competition poses a tremendous threat to their livelihoods. The document argues that sound land tenure policies and planning is crucial to ensuring that these men and women do not fall into even greater hardship.

This policy document presents major climate change threats to fisheries and aquaculture. These include higher water temperatures, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, changes in ocean salinity and acidity, more cyclones in some areas, less rain in others, shifting patterns and abundance of fish stocks. The document underlines that climate change compromises the sustainability and productivity of a key economic and environmental resource, but it also presents opportunities, especially in aquaculture.

This policy document highlights that natural disasters are on the increase, with the prospect of more frequent and more severe occurrences fuelled by global warming. In emergencies, it is the most vulnerable – the poor, elderly, women and children – who suffer the most from hunger and deprivation. Disaster risk management plays an increasingly key role in dealing with the effects of climate change on food security. 

This policy document stresses that climate change is creating favourable conditions for animal and plant pests and diseases in new areas as well as changing the way they are transmitted. This threatens food security and rural livelihoods across the globe. The document argues that strengthening cooperation and early detection is needed to face these challenges.

This policy document discusses the impact of climate change on water resources and, consequently, food security. It argues that these impacts will vary tremendously from place to place. It is expected that elevated temperatures will benefit agriculture in the northern latitudes, while large parts of the arid and semi-arid tropics will face declining rainfall and runoff . This is an ominous trend for the mostly food-insecure countries located there. After presenting the current situation and future perspectives, the document analyses five key policy responses.

This policy document highlights that climate change will be an important driver of genetic erosion in the future. It will both threaten the survival of individual species and affect the way different elements of biodiversity interact in food and agriculture ecosystems. It discusses adaptation and mitigation options in this context and the involvement of farmers and rural communities. 

This policy document briefly discusses climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors. It stresses that mitigation alone is not enough, as global warming is already underway, and adaptation strategies are now a matter of urgency. After introducing the main issues, the document presents successful approaches and possible measures to promote adaptation.

This activity report presents the features and outcomes of a training program on climate forecast application in agriculture in Bangladesh. The overall objectives of the training is to share and learn various issues of Climate Change related issues relating to adaptation approaches and climate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the country. 

The activity report presents the features and the outcomes of a climate change adaptation training program conducted in Bangladesh. Through this training the local level officials and operational professionals were given orientation on the major issues and themes of climate change, adaptation and its linkages with overall risk management through systematic adaptation process.