will help the region ramp up its climate action in key transitions:
- The Agriculture, Food, Water, and Land Systems Transition
- The Energy and Transport Transition
- The Urban Transition
The WBG will also work to achieve systemic resilience across sectors and mobilize financing and investment.
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic offers South Asian countries a unique opportunity to adapt to and mitigate climate change by massively investing in resilient infrastructure, re-skilling their populations for high-productivity jobs, and rebuilding their economies around cleaner energy.
ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº Group is committed to this agenda and helping the countries of South Asia tackle the impacts of climate change. The South Asia Climate Roadmap builds on the World Bank Group¡¯s Climate Change Action Plan and commitment to boosting climate action at the country level by directing 35 percent of its lending portfolio in South Asia to climate-related actions, on average, over the next five years.
The South Asia Climate Roadmap will also support the development of key cutting-edge analytical tools to inform country climate planning and development strategies in South Asia.
