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Decarbonizing Development

Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, Tom Kerr ...

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Can development be decoupled from carbon emissions? This insightful guide outlines practical steps for policymakers, academics, and development practitioners to achieve a zero-carbon future while fostering economic growth and protecting vulnerable populations.Decarbonizing Development tackles the complex challenge of climate change by offering a three-pronged approach:Planning with the end goal in ... Read more

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Can development be decoupled from carbon emissions? This insightful guide outlines practical steps for policymakers, academics, and development practitioners to achieve a zero-carbon future while fostering economic growth and protecting vulnerable populations.Decarbonizing Development tackles the complex challenge of climate change by offering a three-pronged approach:Planning with the end goal in
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The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity

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Series series Sustainable Infrastructure
This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users? needs during and after a natural hazard. ... Read more

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This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users? needs during and after a natural hazard.
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Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters

by Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Mook Bangalore, Julie Rozenberg ...

Series series Climate Change and Development
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences ... Read more

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'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences
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Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

by Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, Adrien Vogt-Schilb ...

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Can developing countries eradicate poverty in the face of climate change?Shock Waves examines the complex relationship between climate change and poverty, offering strategies for managing climate impacts on vulnerable populations. This report demonstrates the urgency of reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change.Discover how rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent ... Read more

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Can developing countries eradicate poverty in the face of climate change?Shock Waves examines the complex relationship between climate change and poverty, offering strategies for managing climate impacts on vulnerable populations. This report demonstrates the urgency of reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change.Discover how rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent
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Navigating the Political Economy of Decarbonization

by Stephane Hallegatte, Catrina Godinho, Jun Rentschler, Avner, Camilla Knudsen, Jana Lemke, Penny Mealy ...

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Climate change presents a unique challenge in that policy makers need to balance the speed and scale required to achieve global objectives within the time required to ensure political acceptability and social sustainability. Within Reach: Navigating the Political Economy of Decarbonization identifies the key political economy barriers and explores the options to address them through four key ... Read more

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Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters

by Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Mook Bangalore, Rozenberg ...

Series series Climate Change and Development
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences ... Read more

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Decarbonizing Development

Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future

by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, Tom Kerr ...

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The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is ... Read more

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This book explores economic concepts related to disaster losses, describes mechanisms that determine the economic consequences of a disaster, and reviews methodologies for making decisions regarding risk management and adaptation. The author addresses the need for better understanding of the consequences of disasters and reviews and analyzes three scientific debates on linkage between disaster ... Read more

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This book explores economic concepts related to disaster losses, describes mechanisms that determine the economic consequences of a disaster, and reviews methodologies for making decisions regarding risk management and adaptation. The author addresses the need for better understanding of the consequences of disasters and reviews and analyzes three scientific debates on linkage between disaster
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The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity

by Stephane Hallegatte, Jun Rentschler, Julie Rozenberg ...

Series series Sustainable Infrastructure
Infrastructure—electricity, telecommunications, roads, water, and sanitation—are central to people’s lives. Without it, they cannot make a living, stay healthy, and maintain a good quality of life. Access to basic infrastructure is also a key driver of economic development. This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to ... Read more

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Infrastructure—electricity, telecommunications, roads, water, and sanitation—are central to people’s lives. Without it, they cannot make a living, stay healthy, and maintain a good quality of life. Access to basic infrastructure is also a key driver of economic development. This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to
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Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

by Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, Adrien Vogt-Schilb ...

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Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines ... Read more

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The End of Growth

Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

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Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

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Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a ... Read more

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Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a
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