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This report presents the World Bank
Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient
development and contends that it is essential to eliminate
extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. The
report argues for closer collaboration between the climate
resilience and disaster risk management communities through
the incorporation of climate and disaster resilience into
broader development processes. Selected case studies are
used to illustrate promising approaches, lessons learned,
and remaining challenges all in contribution to the loss and
damage discussions under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The introduction
provides an overview of the UNFCCC and also introduces key
concepts and definitions relevant to climate and disaster
resilient development. Section two describes the impacts of
globally increasing weather-related disasters in recent
decades. Section three summarizes how the World Bank
Group's goals to end extreme poverty and boost shared
prosperity are expected to be affected by rising disaster
losses in a changing climate. Section four discusses the
issue of attribution in weather-related disasters, and the
additional start-up costs involved in climate and disaster
resilient development. Section five builds upon the
processes and instruments developed by the climate
resilience and the disaster risk management communities of
practice to provide some early lessons learned in this
increasingly merging field. Section six highlights case
studies and emerging good practices in climate and disaster
resilient development. Section seven concludes the report,
summarizing key lessons learned and identifying potential
gaps and avenues for future work.
