Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR

Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is endowed with abundant natural resources, such as water, forests, minerals, and biodiversity. This document aims to succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Lao PDR. This includes rapid onset and long...

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Main Authors: World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila 2021
Subjects:
CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL HAZARD
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/960971632462388786/Lao-People-s-Democratic-Republic-PDR-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile
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spelling okr-10986-363662021-10-14T05:10:56Z Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR World Bank Group Asian Development Bank CLIMATE CHANGE NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL DISASTER HEATWAVE DROUGHT FLOOD CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is endowed with abundant natural resources, such as water, forests, minerals, and biodiversity. This document aims to succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Lao PDR. This includes rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as impacts of these changes on communities, livelihoods, and economies, many of which are already underway. This is a high-level synthesis of existing research and analyses, focusing on the geographic domain of Lao PDR, therefore potentially excluding some international influences and localized impacts. The core data presented is sourced from the database sitting behind the World Bank Group’s (WBG) climate change knowledge portal (CCKP), incorporating climate projections from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). This document is primarily meant for WBG and Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff to inform their climate actions and to direct them to many useful sources of secondary data and research. 2021-10-13T18:50:14Z 2021-10-13T18:50:14Z 2021-09-24 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/960971632462388786/Lao-People-s-Democratic-Republic-PDR-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36366 English CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo World Bank and Asian Development Bank World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic
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topic CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL HAZARD
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
spellingShingle CLIMATE CHANGE
NATURAL HAZARD
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
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Lao People's Democratic Republic
description Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is endowed with abundant natural resources, such as water, forests, minerals, and biodiversity. This document aims to succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Lao PDR. This includes rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate parameters, as well as impacts of these changes on communities, livelihoods, and economies, many of which are already underway. This is a high-level synthesis of existing research and analyses, focusing on the geographic domain of Lao PDR, therefore potentially excluding some international influences and localized impacts. The core data presented is sourced from the database sitting behind the World Bank Group’s (WBG) climate change knowledge portal (CCKP), incorporating climate projections from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). This document is primarily meant for WBG and Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff to inform their climate actions and to direct them to many useful sources of secondary data and research.
format Report
author World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
author_facet World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
author_sort World Bank Group
title Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
title_short Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
title_full Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
title_fullStr Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
title_full_unstemmed Climate Risk Country Profile : Lao PDR
title_sort climate risk country profile : lao pdr
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/960971632462388786/Lao-People-s-Democratic-Republic-PDR-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36366
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