Climate change

This handbook provides guidance for designing and implementing technical assistance on macroeconomic modelling to support climate resilient economic development in partner countries.

Older people in Austria widely perceive an increase in extreme weather since their childhood. Yet how strongly they notice these changes depends on their social position, where they live and how they relate to environmental issues.

England is sweltering under an red heat health alert and could see its hottest June day on record. In North America, football fans and players are suffering, with a quarter of this summer’s World Cup matches forecast to be played in dangerous heat.

Even as global rates of workplace injury are declining, action is still needed to reduce harm amongst the most vulnerable. There are also signs of complacency in the face of rising harm from food, drinking water and poor air quality.

Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims

This report explores public perceptions of the threat of climate change - perceptions that are shaped by people’s lived experience of risk in their daily lives as much as by scientific evidence.

This brief reviews the empirical evidence on the barriers women face in adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A

This World Bank Development Report examines how rising climate risks are reshaping the competitiveness of firms across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAAP) region.