This informal presentation was made to help analyze the different ways in which the World Bank addresses climate change and how need and vulnerability relate to foreign aid from the World Bank. Data on climate change projects in sub-Saharan Africa are broken down to look at vulnerability, budget, climate change relevance, funding, and sectors.

1. It’s Not
Easy Being
Green
Climate Change Team

2. How do we determine if the World Bank is
green?
❏ Looking specifically at support for climate change as
proxy for “green”
❏ How relevant are WB projects to climate change?
❏ Problem: Many ways to interpret the data.
❏ Additionally:
❏ What is vulnerability?
❏ Who determines vulnerability?

3. ○ All World Bank activities from 2008 - 2012
that received an overall CCAPS climate
score of greater than .75, indicating the
activity has relevance to climate change.
○ CCAPS climate vulnerability map that
displays the average of four indices:
○ climate-related hazard exposure
○ population density
○ household and community resilience
○ governance.
World Bank CC Activities and CCAPS
Climate Vulnerability

7. Total Climate Financing ‘08 - ‘12

17. Conclusion: It’s not easy being green!
● There is not one way to assess if the World
Bank is green or not
● One possible way is to combine:
o Climate score
o Money spent
o Population
o Vulnerability
● Problem: vulnerability map is not
necessarily perfect…