Climate Change Data

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2013, 2019)

Reporting Period: 2013

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Open Data
  • Citizen Engagement
  • Data Accessibility

Social Achievements

  • Conducted offline pilots in Indonesia and Kenya to gauge demand for open financial data in offline communities, resulting in increased citizen engagement and feedback on development projects.

Governance Achievements

  • Published all survey data in open format, making it accessible for replication of analysis and reuse in related research.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Difficulty in measuring open data usage due to its free and open nature.
  • Digital divide and lack of internet access in many communities.
  • Insufficient methods for measuring open data demand, particularly in offline environments.
  • Complexity of financial data making it difficult for average citizens to understand.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Used nano-surveys and traditional online surveys to measure demand for open financial data.
  • Conducted offline pilots in Indonesia and Kenya to engage with communities directly.
  • Developed community-generated content (posters, radio spots) to disseminate information and encourage engagement.
  • Leveraged existing community groups and structures for engagement.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Security
  • Sustainable Peace
  • Equity
  • Social Cohesion
  • Economic Opportunities
  • Accountable Institutions

Social Achievements

  • Engaging with more than 4,000 Iraqi citizens through an online survey to understand their needs and perspectives.

Governance Achievements

  • Advocating for a bottom-up approach to reconstruction, focusing on local needs and assets.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Fluid, fractured, and informal nature of conflicts in MENA.
  • Damage to social fabrics and economic networks.
  • Fragmentation and incoherence of government systems and institutions.
  • Flawed incentive structures.
  • Inadvertent support of the illicit criminal economy.
  • Elite capture of resources.
  • Lack of information on actors' incentives, needs, and interests.
  • Misaligned incentives of various actors.
  • Limited governance capacities.
  • Continued destruction of physical, human, and social capital.
  • Inability of governments to collect taxes, enforce laws, and provide services.
  • Questioned legitimacy of relations between communities and the central state.
  • Absence or ineffectiveness of legal frameworks.
  • Power asymmetries and exclusion of certain groups.
  • Multiple levels of authorities.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Multidimensional approach to reconstruction, managing fluidity, healing fractures, and addressing informality.
  • Focus on the people most affected and vulnerable.
  • Understanding the past, making sense of the present, and mapping for the future.
  • Building on existing assets and coping structures.
  • Identifying spoilers and enablers of sustainable peace.
  • Developing a long-term vision for sustainable peace.
  • Participatory and inclusive processes to build consensus among stakeholders.
  • Pragmatic approach that allows for a more comprehensive understanding of opportunities and risks.
  • Greater coordination among donors.
  • Learning and adaptation in fluid situations.
  • Integrating geopolitical interests into the process of identifying and implementing interventions.
  • Bottom-up, localized, and integrated approaches.
  • Combining top-down and bottom-up approaches.
  • Integrating short-term interventions with a long-term vision.
  • Addressing local needs and building on existing assets.
  • Reaching displaced people where they are.
  • Engaging young people and women in peacebuilding processes.
  • Dialogue with nonstate actors.
  • Leveraging partnerships, cooperation, and coordination among international actors.
  • Using the convening power of multilateral development institutions.
  • Mobilizing diaspora investment.
  • Maintaining contact with different actors and conducting prospective analysis.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities