Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan

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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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 RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/964231632460784430/Afghanistan-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36381
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spelling okr-10986-363812021-10-14T05:10:50Z Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan World Bank Group Asian Development Bank CLIMATE RISK CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION NATURAL DISASTER HEATWAVE DROUGHT FLOOD 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. 2021-10-13T20:52:08Z 2021-10-13T20:52:08Z 2021-09-24 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/964231632460784430/Afghanistan-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36381 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 South Asia Afghanistan
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topic CLIMATE RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
spellingShingle CLIMATE RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
description 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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author World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
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Asian Development Bank
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title Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
title_short Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
title_full Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
title_fullStr Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
title_full_unstemmed Climate Risk Country Profile : Afghanistan
title_sort climate risk country profile : afghanistan
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/964231632460784430/Afghanistan-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36381
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