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Blog Post
April 18, 2025
On Wednesday, World Bank President Ajay Banga announced that the Bank will pursue an “all of the above” approach to energy projects in poor countries, including lending for natural gas, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, wind, and nuclear power. This marks a departure from its current policy of fundi...
Blog Post
April 15, 2025
Grazing livestock—especially cattle—are responsible for about 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, measured by their warming effect over 100 years, but ranchers won’t invest in methane-reducing innovations without external incentives. An Advance Market Commitment could fix this market failu...
POLICY PAPER
April 10, 2025
Global underinvestment in climate adaptation increases the importance of ensuring that such finance is well targeted and well spent. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are the largest public source of adaptation finance for developing countries, and the World Bank accounts for about half of the M...
Blog Post
February 14, 2025
Recent discussions on climate finance have primarily focused on who should pay and how much, with less attention given to impact or effectiveness. But we’ve shown before that the effectiveness of climate finance can be questioned, and have urged a greater focus on quality, not just quantity. This is...
POLICY PAPER
February 12, 2025
Planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities is increasingly necessary as climate shocks become more frequent and intense. It is also becoming more feasible as modelling of future scenarios improves and adaptation limits become clearer. Still, many governments are underprepared for planning ...
Blog Post
February 12, 2025
As climate change accelerates and weather variability grows, life in hazard-exposed areas will become progressively harder. States have two policy alternatives to in situ misery or distress migration: in situ adaptation, helping people remain where they are, or planned relocation from danger, where ...
Blog Post
January 06, 2025
This is the third in a series of five blogs on the Biden administration’s global development agenda. This blog focuses on the Biden administration’s record on pillar 3: Decarbonize the Economy and Increase Climate Resilience, and offers an assessment of how the next Trump administration could affect...
Blog Post
December 23, 2024
Climate finance is a disaster. COP29 ended with a hotly-contested and almost universally-loathed agreement for rich countries to provide $300 billion each year to developing countries, to defray the costs of adapting to and mitigating the effects of anthropogenic climate change. Commentators from th...