@capitalweather.bsky.social 8.30am today

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Industrialized economies are increasingly turning their backs on aid and diplomacy to build up their armies. But analysts fear that hostile and unreliable states like Russia, China and Turkey will step in to fill the gap. 🔗 politi.co/4i4fUWR

Moderated by @hallegatte.bsky.social of the World Bank, the conversation included voices from Zambia, Pakistan and Moldova - our country of operation - we were pleased to see Secretary of State Aliona Rusnac join the dialogue.

The 4th “Country Climate and Development Report” summary is out, covering 93 economies, with a focus on jobs. This report is unique in that it is based on dozens of individual-country reports, each prepared (and reviewed) individually.

Thanks to renewable power expansion, fuel-importing countries saved more than $1.3tn between 2010 and 2023 that would otherwise have been spent on fossil fuels from overseas. Important contribution from @iea.org to current debates!

SNCF press release on the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train cancellation. Basically "none of it is our fault!" https://www.sncf-voyageurs.com/fr/presse/trains-de-nuit-paris-vienne-et-paris-berlin

Une terrible nouvelle! Personnellement il me semble que ça va contre le “sens de l’Histoire”. Encore plus personnellement je vais amèrement regretter cette ligne dans mes transits réguliers entre l’Ukraine et la France (en train c’est top) Ouf: Reste le train de nuit Vienne-Bruxelles

Two new recordings online! CCSS Meeting #73: Defining and measuring socioeconomic resilience by dr. @hallegatte.bsky.social Science Jam #62: Temporal Networks of Human Interactions by Prof. dr. @jsaramak.bsky.social Please check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@centreforco...

How do we estimate climate change macroeconomic risks in The World Bank's Country Climate and Development Reports? We just published a methodological paper that presents a methodology used in many of them, with our partners at Industrial Economics (IEc). documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Renewable energy offers an opportunity to bring electricity to people who are hard to reach with fossil fuels, and to create jobs and reduce poverty. It is also chance to boost resilience to natural disasters and climate change. Blog post on our M300 initiative: blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

From WB colleagues, an assessment of firm-level vulnerability and adaptation. Based on 160,000 firms, they find they small and medium-size firms in low- and low-middle income countries see revenues decline by 12% when temperatures are 0.5◦C above average. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

La saga inachevée des ordinateurs TO7 et MO5, un éphémère succès français. nostalgie…

A joy to visualise this good climate news ☀️ Solar is growing in every EU country and, for the first time in 2024, generates more electricity than coal. Plenty more powerful and positive insights in @ember-energy.org's European Electricity Review 2025 out today ➡️➡️➡️ ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

📣Our upcoming webinar with Adam Bauer explores his research with @hallegatte.bsky.social and Florent McIsaac and asks: Should we delay for coordinated climate policies or implement uncoordinated ones now? 📅Jan 27 ⏰11am EST, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET 🔗https://bit.ly/3WpEQhQ #ClimateChangeMitigation

last day of 2024! Here is a little summary of some of our analytical work on climate and development...

Personal news. I’m changing roles to become World Bank’s chief climate economist, working on making sure we integrate climate considerations into our development mandate.

A welcome (and concrete) confirmation that development and poverty reduction remain key global priorities!

When is the best the enemy of the good (enough)? New paper with Adam Michael Bauer and Florent McIsaac: The Timing versus Allocation Trade-off in Politically Constrained Climate Policies. The short answer is that timing is more important than allocation. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

“Raising to the Challenge”: Our new World Bank report on adaptation and resilience highlights the needs for action, with 1.2b people living at high risk from climate hazards, without basic tools to manage risks. But it also shows progress, and good practices waiting to be replicated!

The World Bank introduced the Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) in 2022. After 3 yrs, a third summary combines findings from 58 CCDRs covering 72 countries. This summary focuses on the climate impacts on people, and their role in climate policies. www.worldbank.org/en/topic/cli...