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  "title": "Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation",
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  "summary": "IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva explains why we are entering an age of adaptation, and why we must accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Kristalina Georgieva (Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund) argues we are entering an age of adaptation and must accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy.\n- No individual or institution can stand on the sidelines; actions now determine outcomes for future generations."
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    {
      "heading": "Human and long-term scenarios",
      "content": "- Illustrative lifetime impacts:\n  - Kristalina Georgieva’s 9-year-old granddaughter:\n    - By age 20: climate change may push an additional 100 million people into poverty.\n    - By age 40: 140 million may become climate migrants.\n    - By age 90: the planet may be 3–4° hotter and barely livable.\n- Core message: reduce emissions, offset what cannot be reduced, and adapt to new climate realities."
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    {
      "heading": "Reality check and rationale for adaptation",
      "content": "- Observed trends:\n  - More frequent and more severe weather-related events: more droughts, more floods, more heat waves, more storms.\n- Adaptation framing:\n  - Adaptation is not a defeat but a defense; the right investments deliver a “triple dividend”:\n    - Averting future losses.\n    - Spurring economic gains through innovation.\n    - Delivering social and environmental benefits, especially to those most at risk.\n  - Examples of adaptation measures:\n    - Updated building codes to better withstand extreme events.\n    - Investing in climate-resilient agriculture, including research and development."
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    {
      "heading": "Mitigation: carbon pricing and fiscal design",
      "content": "- IMF analysis recommendation:\n  - Large emitting countries need to introduce a carbon tax that rises quickly to $75 a ton in 2030, consistent with limiting global warming to 2°C or less.\n- Fiscal design principles:\n  - Carbon taxes must be implemented in a careful and growth-friendly fashion.\n  - Retool the tax system in fair, creative, and efficient ways—not just add a new tax.\n  - Example: Sweden’s approach—low- and middle-income households received higher transfers and tax cuts to offset higher energy costs after introducing a carbon tax.\n- Revenue uses and magnitudes:\n  - Revenues estimated at 1–3 percent of GDP.\n  - Portions of revenue could be directed back to low-income households and to support firms and households choosing green pathways."
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      "heading": "Adaptation, resilience-building, and IMF operational role",
      "content": "- Economic impacts of disasters:\n  - Countries vulnerable to natural disasters suffer immediate losses and long-lasting economic effects.\n  - In some countries, total economic losses exceed 200 percent of GDP—as when Hurricane Maria struck Dominica in 2017.\n- IMF tools and activities:\n  - Emergency lending facilities provide speedy assistance to low-income countries hit by disasters.\n  - Support resilience-building strategies in highly vulnerable countries to prepare for and rebound from disasters.\n  - Provide training and technical assistance to help governments better manage disaster risks and responses.\n  - Collaborate with the World Bank on Climate Change Policy Assessments to assess mitigation and adaptation plans, risk management strategies, and financing, and to identify investment, policy, and capacity gaps."
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      "heading": "Financial sector, central banks, and new frontiers",
      "content": "- Engagement with central banks and regulators:\n  - Work more closely with central banks, recognizing their roles in financial and price stability as they adapt regulatory frameworks and practices to climate risks.\n  - Support improving climate risk disclosure and classification standards to help financial institutions and investors assess climate-related exposures and help regulators gauge system-wide risks.\n  - IMF engagement includes working with the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System and other standard-setting bodies.\n- Climate-related stress testing:\n  - Central banks and regulators should help banks, insurers, and nonfinancial firms develop climate-related “stress tests.”\n  - Such stress tests can identify likely impact of severe adverse climate-driven shocks on solvency and financial stability.\n  - IMF will push forward climate-change stress testing, including through country financial-sector and economy assessments.\n  - Careful calibration is needed because testing must assess effects of shocks or policy actions that may have little historical precedent."
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      "heading": "Mobilizing finance and collective action",
      "content": "- Financial signals and instruments:\n  - Rapid increase of green bonds is a positive trend, but much more is required to secure the future.\n- Call to action:\n  - Intensify efforts to exchange knowledge and ideas, formulate and implement policies, and finance the transition to the new climate economy.\n  - Emphasis on collective responsibility: “we all need to intensify our efforts … Our children and grandchildren are counting on us.”\n\nSource: \"Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation\", Kristalina Georgieva, IMF F&D Magazine, December 2019\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- كلام صريح\n  - كلام صريح (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - كلام صريح (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019\n  - Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Hablando claro: La era adaptativa ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2019\n  - Hablando claro: La era adaptativa ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2019 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Hablando claro: La era adaptativa ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2019 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Il est temps de s’adapter\n  - Il est temps de s’adapter (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Il est temps de s’adapter (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Эпоха адаптации\n  - Эпоха адаптации (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Эпоха адаптации (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019\n  - Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2019/12/climate-change-and-the-age-of-adaptation-georgieva"
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    "Authors: KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA",
    "Published: December 1, 2019",
    "Kristalina Georgieva (Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund) argues we are entering an age of adaptation and must accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon economy.",
    "No individual or institution can stand on the sidelines; actions now determine outcomes for future generations.",
    "Illustrative lifetime impacts:",
    "Core message: reduce emissions, offset what cannot be reduced, and adapt to new climate realities.",
    "Observed trends:",
    "Adaptation framing:",
    "IMF analysis recommendation:",
    "Fiscal design principles:",
    "Revenue uses and magnitudes:",
    "Economic impacts of disasters:",
    "IMF tools and activities:",
    "Engagement with central banks and regulators:",
    "Climate-related stress testing:",
    "Financial signals and instruments:",
    "Call to action:",
    "**كلام صريح**",
    "**Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019**",
    "**Hablando claro: La era adaptativa ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2019**",
    "**Il est temps de s’adapter**",
    "**Эпоха адаптации**",
    "**Climate Change and the Age of Adaptation – IMF F&D | DECEMBER 2019**"
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