Climate Change

The conventional wisdom is that higher taxes hurt growth—not a desirable outcome at a time when recession looms. But that effect can be overcome simply by shifting the tax burden in a revenue-…

With about a third of the world’s water resources, Latin America has the highest water endowment per capita, nearly four times the global average. Even so, as many as 150 million people or about a…

When world leaders gather in Egypt this week at the 27th Conference of the Parties climate conference, one question will loom large: Where is the money?

Ensuring people benefit from climate transitions is, at its center, a challenge of gender equality. The impacts of climate change vary profoundly by gender, particularly in terms of economic…

Amid growing climate change impacts, countries need to develop comprehensive adaptation strategies. A new World Bank whole-of-economy diagnostic and scoring system will help identify short-term…