In 2022, the Pakistan CCDR identified the potential of solar (utility-scale and off-grid) to meet the country energy needs and objectives. It was certainly part of the conversation with the authorities at the launch of the report in November.
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@capitalweather.bsky.social 8.30am today
Thanks for sharing! An important piece of evidence for the fact that the people opposing a policy are not necessarily the same as the people negatively affected. Winner/Loser analyses are not enough. It was one key conclusion of our report on the political economy of climate action.
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Industrialized economies are increasingly turning their backs on aid and diplomacy to build up their armies.
But analysts fear that hostile and unreliable states like Russia, China and Turkey will step in to fill the gap.
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Agreed. See our recent piece showing how global freshwater reserves have significantly declined over the past two decades, leading to the emergence of mega-drying regions.
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Moderated by @hallegatte.bsky.social of the World Bank, the conversation included voices from Zambia, Pakistan and Moldova - our country of operation - we were pleased to see Secretary of State Aliona Rusnac join the dialogue.
And if you attend COP30, see here the events we organize, including the CCDR Summary launch tomorrow
However, while the aggregate effect is expected to be small, countries need to prepare for significant sectoral and regional shifts. The report highlights measures to reduce five frictions that prevent workers to adjust to a rapidly changing labor market: skills, space, time, norms, and wages.
At the same time, the shift to low-emission development pathways, with emissions reduced by 71 percent by 2050, would have a small and most of the time positive impacts on GDP and labor income.
Key highlights include that climate adaptation could yield labor income benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050, a combination of new jobs created by investments in infrastructure or nature-based solution and jobs that are protected from negative shocks and impacts.
The 4th “Country Climate and Development Report” summary is out, covering 93 economies, with a focus on jobs.
This report is unique in that it is
based on dozens of individual-country reports, each prepared (and reviewed) individually.
Thanks to renewable power expansion, fuel-importing countries saved more than $1.3tn between 2010 and 2023 that would otherwise have been spent on fossil fuels from overseas. Important contribution from @iea.org to current debates!
SNCF press release on the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train cancellation. Basically "none of it is our fault!" www.sncf-voyageurs.com/fr/presse/trains-de-nuit...
Une terrible nouvelle! Personnellement il me semble que ça va contre le “sens de l’Histoire”.
Encore plus personnellement je vais amèrement regretter cette ligne dans mes transits réguliers entre l’Ukraine et la France (en train c’est top)
Ouf: Reste le train de nuit Vienne-Bruxelles
Air conditioning good
Two new recordings online!
CCSS Meeting #73: Defining and measuring socioeconomic resilience by dr. @hallegatte.bsky.social
Science Jam #62: Temporal Networks of Human Interactions by Prof. dr. @jsaramak.bsky.social
Please check out our YouTube channel
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How do we estimate climate change macroeconomic risks in The World Bank's Country Climate and Development Reports? We just published a methodological paper that presents a methodology used in many of them, with our partners at Industrial Economics (IEc). documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...
Renewable energy offers an opportunity to bring electricity to people who are hard to reach with fossil fuels, and to create jobs and reduce poverty. It is also chance to boost resilience to natural disasters and climate change. Blog post on our M300 initiative: blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...
Congratulations to Bina! A well deserved award: her research has been and will continue to be very influential in India and beyond!
Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.
From WB colleagues, an assessment of firm-level vulnerability and adaptation. Based on 160,000 firms, they find they small and medium-size firms in low- and low-middle income countries see revenues decline by 12% when temperatures are 0.5◦C above average. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
CCDRs now cover 72 economies, each with its own modeling, and their preparation include the iterative aspects mentioned in the paper, both across disciplines (eg energy and macro) and btw modelers and decision makers.
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curious to hear what you think of the modeling approach deployed in CCDRs, in which different parts of the systems are modeled separately (to keep modeling manageable and sufficiently detailed), with a macro analyses validating the feasibility and estimating financial and macro implications…
