Lebanon country climate and development report

The Lebanon Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) aligns the country’s short-term recovery needs with resilient, low-carbon, long-term development, building on quantitative modeling-based analytics, existing research and country diagnostics, and extensive stakeholder consultations to study the effects of climate change on Lebanon’s recovery and development objectives.

This analysis the following key messages:

1. Lebanon is among the countries least prepared to face climate change; its limited adaptive capacity, exacerbated by the ongoing economic and financial crisis, is the primary sources of its vulnerability to climate change.
2. Climate change impacts that are covered in this report are projected to reduce Lebanon's growth potential by up to 2 percent annually by 2040 and impede service provision.
3. Increasing Lebanon's capacity to adapt to climate shocks depends on how quickly it recovers from its current crisis and invests in adaptation measures.