Assessing the Environmental Co-Benefits of Climate Change Actions [electronic resource] / Kirk Hamilton.
Material type: TextSeries: Other papers | World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2010Subject(s): Afforestation | Air Pollution | Air Quality | Alternative Energy | Aquifers | Carbon Credits | Carbon Dioxide | Carbon Finance | Carbon Sequestration | Carbon Sinks | Climate | Climate Change | Climate Change Economics | Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases | Coal | Debt | Deforestation | Developed Countries | Economics | Electricity | Emission Reductions | Emissions | Energy Efficiency | Energy Policy | Environment | Environmental Economics & Policies | Ethanol | Floods | Forests | Fossil Fuels | Freight Transport | Global Environment Facility | Greenhouse Gases | Highways | Landfill Gas | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | Methane | Natural Gas | Natural Resources | Nitrous Oxide Emissions | Particulate Matter | Pastures | Power Plants | Renewable Energy | Risk Management | Roads | Sanitation | Soil Carbon | Transport | Waste Management | Water Pollution | Water Resources | Wetlands | Wind EnergyOnline resources: Click here to access online Abstract: This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging natural resources for growth and poverty reduction; managing the environmental risks to growth and development; and transforming growth paths. As part of its exploration of these three pillars, the strategy considers the question of environmental co-benefits of climate change actions. In particular, it poses the question of potential trade-offs between actions to address climate change and other local and regional environmental priorities, and considers how to maximize co-benefits arising from climate action. The primary objective of this background paper is to assess the potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation actions to provide environmental co-benefits, particularly in the quality of environmental media, flow of ecosystem services, and maintenance of biodiversity. To accomplish this, the paper is organized in five sections: section one gives provision of an organizing framework to identify and classify potential co-benefits; section two gives summary of the external literature on co-benefits; section three gives review of examples from the World Bank portfolio; section four presents initial thoughts on creation of enabling conditions for co-benefit provision; and section five gives review of implications for the environment strategy.This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy is built on three pillars: leveraging natural resources for growth and poverty reduction; managing the environmental risks to growth and development; and transforming growth paths. As part of its exploration of these three pillars, the strategy considers the question of environmental co-benefits of climate change actions. In particular, it poses the question of potential trade-offs between actions to address climate change and other local and regional environmental priorities, and considers how to maximize co-benefits arising from climate action. The primary objective of this background paper is to assess the potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation actions to provide environmental co-benefits, particularly in the quality of environmental media, flow of ecosystem services, and maintenance of biodiversity. To accomplish this, the paper is organized in five sections: section one gives provision of an organizing framework to identify and classify potential co-benefits; section two gives summary of the external literature on co-benefits; section three gives review of examples from the World Bank portfolio; section four presents initial thoughts on creation of enabling conditions for co-benefit provision; and section five gives review of implications for the environment strategy.
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