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  "title": "Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, December 11, 2023",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper focuses on policies to address climate change in Ukraine. The war has been a setback to continued progress on Ukraine’s climate objectives.",
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      "heading": "Main findings",
      "content": "- The paper focuses on policies to address climate change in Ukraine.\n- The war has been a setback to continued progress on Ukraine’s climate objectives.\n- Over the longer term, Ukraine has potential to implement policies that internalize climate-related priorities as well as reconstruction, macroeconomic stability, and social protection priorities.\n- Ukraine is vulnerable to climate change from substantially warmer temperatures and more volatile rainfall patterns that may arise under more severely adverse climate scenarios.\n- Essential investments in climate change adaptation will need to be taken with a view toward avoiding debt vulnerabilities.\n- Ukraine’s investment needs in this area are moderate sized.\n- Ukraine should be in a position to make these investments over the longer term, including after debt sustainability has been restored, without causing debt vulnerabilities to re-emerge.\n- Carbon pricing policies can help achieve climate objectives and deliver significant revenue generation."
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    {
      "heading": "Policy recommendations and implications",
      "content": "- Prioritize climate change adaptation investments that are compatible with reconstruction, macroeconomic stability, and social protection objectives.\n- Sequence adaptation investments to avoid creating new debt vulnerabilities, with attention to debt sustainability restoration timelines.\n- Consider carbon pricing policies as a tool to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate significant revenue."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Vulnerabilities and scenarios",
      "content": "- Risks include substantially warmer temperatures and more volatile rainfall patterns under more severely adverse climate scenarios.\n- Adaptation planning should account for these climate risks to safeguard reconstruction and social protection gains."
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      "content": "- Pages: 21\n- Volume: 2023\n- Issue: 400\n- Series: Country Report No. 2023/400\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400261657.002\n- Stock No: 1UKREA2023004\n- ISBN: 9798400261657\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nSource: Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper (IMF Staff Country Reports, 2023).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report No. 23/400; December 4, 2023\n  - Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report No. 23/400; December 4, 2023 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report No. 23/400; December 4, 2023 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: December 11, 2023",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400261657.002",
    "The paper focuses on policies to address climate change in Ukraine.",
    "The war has been a setback to continued progress on Ukraine’s climate objectives.",
    "Over the longer term, Ukraine has potential to implement policies that internalize climate-related priorities as well as reconstruction, macroeconomic stability, and social protection priorities.",
    "Ukraine is vulnerable to climate change from substantially warmer temperatures and more volatile rainfall patterns that may arise under more severely adverse climate scenarios.",
    "Essential investments in climate change adaptation will need to be taken with a view toward avoiding debt vulnerabilities.",
    "Ukraine’s investment needs in this area are moderate sized.",
    "Ukraine should be in a position to make these investments over the longer term, including after debt sustainability has been restored, without causing debt vulnerabilities to re-emerge.",
    "Carbon pricing policies can help achieve climate objectives and deliver significant revenue generation.",
    "Prioritize climate change adaptation investments that are compatible with reconstruction, macroeconomic stability, and social protection objectives.",
    "Sequence adaptation investments to avoid creating new debt vulnerabilities, with attention to debt sustainability restoration timelines.",
    "Consider carbon pricing policies as a tool to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate significant revenue.",
    "Risks include substantially warmer temperatures and more volatile rainfall patterns under more severely adverse climate scenarios.",
    "Adaptation planning should account for these climate risks to safeguard reconstruction and social protection gains.",
    "Pages: 21",
    "Volume: 2023",
    "Issue: 400",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2023/400",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400261657.002",
    "Stock No: 1UKREA2023004",
    "ISBN: 9798400261657",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "**Ukraine: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report No. 23/400; December 4, 2023**"
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