Climate Change and Development
Knowledge and Data Platforms at the World Bank
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) is the World Bank’s primary source of climate data. It provides global data on historical climate and future climates, vulnerabilities, and impacts. Explore our data at the global, national subnational, EEZ and watershed levels.
Climate Disaster and Risk Screening Tools
Climate and Disaster Risk Screening (CDRS) is a process for identifying short- and long-term climate and disaster risks to build resilience in development projects, policies, and programs. The CDRS Tools can be used by development practitioners for high-level screening at an early stage of project design or in national-level planning processes.
Risk Stress Test (RiST) Tool and Resilience Rating System (RRS)
The Risk Stress Test (RiST) tool, designed to highlight risks to project outcomes over long time horizons, helps conduct the stress testing analysis. The RiST methodology is linked to the World Bank’s Resilience Rating System (RRS) and provides an approach to obtain an A rating for resilience of a project, the first of two dimensions covered by the RRS.
Resilience and Disaster Risk Management | GFDRR
The Resilience Indicator measures socioeconomic resilience in 117 countries and provides insights on what investments and policies drive resilience, including on the optimal resilience-building solution in a country that also protects the most vulnerable.
Country Climate and Development Reports
The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development. They help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation and resilience, while delivering broader development goals.
Methane Emissions Reduction
The Global Methane Reduction Platform for Development (CH4D) housed within the CSF, is the World Bank's hub for accelerating methane action in the high-emitter sectors of agri-food, waste and sanitation.
World Bank Group Academy | Climate Programs
Acting on Climate for Shared Prosperity on a Livable Planet. Climate action is at the heart of creating a world free of poverty on a livable planet. The World Bank Academy is convening the next generation of development leaders around the challenge of climate change by facilitating global knowledge flows that will impact climate action.
Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard
Food & Nutrition Monitoring for Agile Response and Resilience. The Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard offers the latest global and country-level data on food crisis severity, crisis preparedness, global food security financing, emerging risks and potential measures to help strengthen agri-food systems.
Energy Data
Energydata.info is an open data platform providing access to datasets and data analytics that are relevant to the energy sector. Energydata.info has been developed as a public good available to governments, development organizations, private sector, non-governmental organizations, academia, civil society and individuals to share data and analytics that can help achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
World Bank Water Data
World Bank Water Data is the source for all water-related open data at the World Bank. It includes datasets and applications generated or compiled by the Water Global Practice.
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing Dashboard
The State and Trends of Carbon Pricing Dashboard is an interactive online tool aimed at policymakers, businesses, and researchers. It provides the latest information on existing and emerging direct carbon pricing initiatives around the world.
Partnership for Market Implementation Knowledge Center
The Partnership for Market Implementation (PMI) assists countries in the acceleration of global decarbonization by designing, piloting, and implementing carbon pricing instruments aligned with their development priorities. The online Knowledge Center provides guidance notes intended for countries preparing to leverage carbon pricing and to access carbon markets, by helping them assess their readiness, then design and implement solutions and finally learn from implementation.
Climate Warehouse
The Climate Warehouse program prototypes, tests, and develops digital infrastructure to foster greater transparency, trust, and integrity in the carbon markets. Successfully prototyped and tested elements of the digital infrastructure will be operationalized to build the market infrastructure.
Climate Action Data Trust
A decentralized metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonizes all major carbon credit registry data to enhance transparent accounting in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The CAD Trust open-source metadata system uses blockchain technology to create a decentralized record of carbon market activity with the aim to avoid double counting, increase trust in carbon credit data and build confidence in carbon markets through improved transparency.
WBG Corporate Scorecard on Green and Blue Planet and Resilient Populations
No country today is immune from the impacts of climate change, pollution, and declines in biodiversity, which can hold back local development and exacerbate poverty. Client context indicators reflect the state of development factors in countries that receive support from the World Bank Group.
WBG Data and Data360
Free and open access to global development data, designed to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. The World Bank recognizes that transparency and accountability are essential to the development process and central to achieving the Bank’s mission to alleviate poverty.
SDG Atlas | SDG 13: Climate action
SDG 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Scientists and policymakers have set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Today, the planet is only 0.4°C from that mark. On average, each person accounts for 6.2 tonnes of CO2 emissions. But in many countries, the number is three times greater.