Climate Change

Climate change, including climate variability, has multiple influences on human health. These health impacts include increased incidence of vector- and waterborne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and cholera; increased heat stress mortality; increased damages and deaths caused by extreme weather events. Relationships between year-to-year variations in climate and infectious diseases are most evident where climate variations are marked, and in vulnerable populations.

Climate change is a primary concern of the World Bank and its clients. Developing countries are expected to be disproportionately impacted by changes in sea level, warming temperatures, stresses on forest and agricultural systems, health impacts, and increased climate variability. Bank support to clients focuses on both mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as reducing vulnerability and adapting to climate change. Natural disaster costs are being captured in costs of environmental degradation studies.

à   Analytical Studies, Research and Toolkits

• Managing Climate Risk: Integrating adaptation into World Bank operations
• Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate
• Not If But When: Adapting to natural hazards in the Pacific Islands region
• An Adaptation Mosaic: A sample of emerging World Bank work in climate change adaptation (part 1)
• An Adaptation Mosaic: A sample of emerging World Bank work in climate change adaptation (part 2)
• Look before you leap: A risk management approach for incorporating climate change adaptation in World Bank operations
• Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation

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