Europe and Central Asia Region : How Resilient is the Energy Sector to Climate Change?
The energy sector is sensitive to changes in seasonal weather patterns and extremes – e.g. floods, droughts, fire, storm, and landslide, that can affect the supply of energy, impact transmission capacity, disrupt oil and gas production, and impact...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/710881484809276842/Europe-and-Central-Asia-Region-How-resilient-is-the-energy-sector-to-climate-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25984 |
| Summary: | The energy sector is sensitive to
changes in seasonal weather patterns and extremes – e.g.
floods, droughts, fire, storm, and landslide, that can
affect the supply of energy, impact transmission capacity,
disrupt oil and gas production, and impact the integrity of
transmission pipelines and power distribution. Much
infrastructure, built to design codes based on historic
climate data, will require decisions in coming years
regarding rehabilitation, upgrade or replacement. This poses
both a challenge and an opportunity for adaptation. This
review is one of a series of sector‐based papers
commissioned as background to the report ‘managing
uncertainty: adapting to climate change in ECA countries’
targeted at internal World Bank audiences as well as
counterparts in client countries. |
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