Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into their core development agendas. The World Bank Group (WBG) and the As...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/964231632460784430/Afghanistan-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36381 |
| Summary: | Climate change is a major risk to good
development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed
to playing an important role in helping countries integrate
climate action into their core development agendas. The
World Bank Group (WBG) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
are committed to supporting client countries to invest in
and build a low-carbon, climate resilient future, helping
them to be better prepared to adapt to current and future
climate impacts. This document aims to succinctly summarize
the climate risks faced by Afghanistan. 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
Afghanistan, 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 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 ADB staff to inform
their climate action and to direct them to many useful
sources of secondary data and research. |
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