Responding to climate change : an action plan for the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean : Respuesta al cambio climatico : un plan de accion para el Banco Mundial en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)

Climate change is a very serious environmental challenge that affects prospects for sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution, the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an average of one degree Celsius per century mainly due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases (CHGs) in the atmosphere. Furthermore, most of this change has occurred in the past 30 to 40 years, and the rate of increase is accelerating. A change of this magnitude...

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Vergara,Walter;
Document Date
2006/11/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
38740
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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Latin America,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Respuesta al cambio climatico : un plan de accion para el Banco Mundial en America Latina y el Caribe
Keywords
adaptation activities

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Vergara,Walter.

Responding to climate change : an action plan for the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean : Respuesta al cambio climatico : un plan de accion para el Banco Mundial en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish). En breve ; no. 97 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/191761468046775223

Responding to climate change : an action plan for the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean : Respuesta al cambio climatico : un plan de accion para el Banco Mundial en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)

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