Stephane Hallegatte

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Industrialized economies are increasingly turning their backs on aid and diplomacy to build up their armies.

But analysts fear that hostile and unreliable states like Russia, China and Turkey will step in to fill the gap.

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Continental Drying: A Threat to Our Common Future By combining satellite data with economic and land-use information, Continental Drying: Threat to our Common Future, offers new insight into where and why freshwater is disappearing and what can be do...

Agreed. See our recent piece showing how global freshwater reserves have significantly declined over the past two decades, leading to the emergence of mega-drying regions.

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Moderated by @hallegatte.bsky.social of the World Bank, the conversation included voices from Zambia, Pakistan and Moldova - our country of operation - we were pleased to see Secretary of State Aliona Rusnac join the dialogue.

And if you attend COP30, see here the events we organize, including the CCDR Summary launch tomorrow

Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are new core diagnostic reports that integrate climate change and development considerations.

And find all the individual CCDRs here: www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Jobs in a Changing Climate: Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports covering 93 economies The latest World Bank's Country Climate and Development summary report, now covering 93 economies, shows that investments in resilience and low-emission development can generate benefits equivalent to...

Read the full report here: www.worldbank.org/en/topic/cli...

However, while the aggregate effect is expected to be small, countries need to prepare for significant sectoral and regional shifts. The report highlights measures to reduce five frictions that prevent workers to adjust to a rapidly changing labor market: skills, space, time, norms, and wages.

At the same time, the shift to low-emission development pathways, with emissions reduced by 71 percent by 2050, would have a small and most of the time positive impacts on GDP and labor income.

Key highlights include that climate adaptation could yield labor income benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050, a combination of new jobs created by investments in infrastructure or nature-based solution and jobs that are protected from negative shocks and impacts.

The 4th “Country Climate and Development Report” summary is out, covering 93 economies, with a focus on jobs.

This report is unique in that it is
based on dozens of individual-country reports, each prepared (and reviewed) individually.

Financing Smart Development Learn how the World Bank Group measures smart development and how it is linked to climate change.

On the same topic, see our note on climate cobenefits: blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

Financing Smart Development Learn how the World Bank Group measures smart development and how it is linked to climate change.

Indeed! blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

Thanks to renewable power expansion, fuel-importing countries saved more than $1.3tn between 2010 and 2023 that would otherwise have been spent on fossil fuels from overseas. Important contribution from @iea.org to current debates!

SNCF press release on the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train cancellation. Basically "none of it is our fault!" https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/fr/presse/trains-de-nuit-paris-vienne-et-paris-berlin

Une terrible nouvelle! Personnellement il me semble que ça va contre le “sens de l’Histoire”.

Encore plus personnellement je vais amèrement regretter cette ligne dans mes transits réguliers entre l’Ukraine et la France (en train c’est top)

Ouf: Reste le train de nuit Vienne-Bruxelles

Air conditioning good

Centre for Complex Systems Studies Utrecht The Centre for Complex Systems Studies (CCSS) brings together the complexity research of Utrecht University. The centre aims at scientific breakthroughs as well as novel solutions for societally relev...

Two new recordings online!

CCSS Meeting #73: Defining and measuring socioeconomic resilience by dr. @hallegatte.bsky.social

Science Jam #62: Temporal Networks of Human Interactions by Prof. dr. @jsaramak.bsky.social

Please check out our YouTube channel
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How do we estimate climate change macroeconomic risks in The World Bank's Country Climate and Development Reports? We just published a methodological paper that presents a methodology used in many of them, with our partners at Industrial Economics (IEc). documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Mission 300: Connecting 300 million people to electricity and building a resilient future in Africa By scaling investment, Mission 300 is a critical foundation for bridging the energy access and adaptation gaps, paving the way for better jobs, and more prosperous and resilient communities across Afr...

Renewable energy offers an opportunity to bring electricity to people who are hard to reach with fossil fuels, and to create jobs and reduce poverty. It is also chance to boost resilience to natural disasters and climate change. Blog post on our M300 initiative: blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

Congratulations to Bina! A well deserved award: her research has been and will continue to be very influential in India and beyond!

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

From WB colleagues, an assessment of firm-level vulnerability and adaptation. Based on 160,000 firms, they find they small and medium-size firms in low- and low-middle income countries see revenues decline by 12% when temperatures are 0.5◦C above average. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are new core diagnostic reports that integrate climate change and development considerations.

CCDRs now cover 72 economies, each with its own modeling, and their preparation include the iterative aspects mentioned in the paper, both across disciplines (eg energy and macro) and btw modelers and decision makers.

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Macroeconomic implications of a transition to net zero emissions In 2022 the World Bank Group launched a new core diagnostic tool: the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR). Published for 42 economies so far, CCDRs use resilient and low-emission development...

methodology discussed here: www.piie.com/publications...

curious to hear what you think of the modeling approach deployed in CCDRs, in which different parts of the systems are modeled separately (to keep modeling manageable and sufficiently detailed), with a macro analyses validating the feasibility and estimating financial and macro implications…

Trade-offs and synergies in urban climate policies - Nature Climate Change Urban climate policies interact with socio–economic policy goals. These interactions can lead to trade-offs or synergies, but have been rarely analysed. Now research provides a quantification of these...

An obsession for a long time: many policy goals interact strongly in urban setting. In a case study on Paris, we show that you need a combination of policies to combine housing affordability, low emissions, and resilience. www.nature.com/articles/ncl...

La saga inachevée des ordinateurs TO7 et MO5, un éphémère succès français Aimant à nostalgie pour certains quadras, les ordinateurs domestiques Thomson ont colonisé les écoles françaises dans les années 1980. Dans les foyers, ils ont côtoyé les Amstrad et autres Atari, avan...

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La saga inachevée des ordinateurs TO7 et MO5, un éphémère succès français. nostalgie…