As part of its work in climate change, the World Bank is engaged in developing tools to help practitioners mainstream climate risk management in development, as well as identify mitigation methodologies and options.
Several tools are under development. Three important ones are:
The World Bank Climate Change Portal
Greenhouse Gas Analysis tools
Renewable Energy Toolkit
The World Bank Climate Change Portal
The World Bank Climate Change Portal is intended to provide quick and readily accessible global climate and climate-related data to the development community. The site is based on the Google Maps platform and allows users to access such data as outputs from climate models (GCMs), historical climate observations, natural disaster data, crop yield projections and socioeconomic data at any point on the globe. The site includes a mapping visualization tool (webGIS) that displays key climate variables, as well as linkages to World Bank databases and a spatially-referenced knowledgebase. The platform is flexible enough to include any spatial datasets, and can be tailored to specific regional or sectoral needs. | 
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This portal will also serve as a launching point for climate change adaptation tools (including the Climate Risk Screening Tool, ADAPT, as well as those developed by other institutions) and other related climate change resources, such as wikis and blogs. The portal will soon be available on the external WB internet site.
Greenhouse Gas Analysis As part of the increased emphasis the World Bank is putting on climate change issues, it has developed a variety of tools and examples to help its staff and clients more readily address the methodological, technical, and economic issues underlying the incorporation of GHG issues in project development and economic analysis. 
Renewable Energy Toolkit The Renewable Energy Toolkit (REToolkit) comprises a range of tools to help Bank staff and country counterparts improve the design and implementation of renewable energy projects. It aims at providing practical implementation needs at each stage of the project cycle and also helps project staff determine sustainable business models, financing mechanisms and regulatory approaches. Renewable Energy Toolkit (REToolkit) |
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