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Dialogue with �civil society �Zagreb - May 2025

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What is a Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR)?

  • Analyses climate impacts and climate policies
  • Explores potential areas for adaptation and mitigation
  • Investigates how climate change and global decarbonization may impact a country’s priorities
  • Recommends policies to meet the country’s development goals (like poverty reduction, growth, inequality) while taking action on climate change)
  • Highlights investment priorities for the next 5-25 years to ensure: �
    • international climate commitments
    • energy efficiency
    • just transition
    • climate smart agriculture
    • afforestation / reforestation
    • disaster risk management
    • public and private green finance

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Climate change and development must be tackled together to deliver on the World Bank’s vision to “create a world free of poverty on a livable planet.”

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How is the CCDR structured, what does it analyze?

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    • Chapter 1: Croatia’s development context, its priorities, main economic challenges; the risks that climate change, disasters, and national decarbonization efforts create, opportunities of a green transition�
    • Chapter 2: Croatia’s existing climate commitments and policies, analysis of the institutional framework for achieving its climate and development ambitions �
    • Chapter 3: Pathways to achieving decarbonization and climate resilience: Using Croatia’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 as a basis and looking at challenges and opportunities in the energy, transport, waste, agriculture, forests water, agriculture, and tourism sectors, and in cities. �
    • Chapter 4: Financial and economic costs and benefits of the green transition�
    • Chapter 5: Policy actions and recommendations

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Climate change in Croatia

  • Higher vulnerability to climate change than the average high-income country and most EU countries
  • Meteorological hazards and natural disasters
  • Increasing temperatures – nearly three times as fast as the global average
  • heatwaves, flooding, decreased precipitation (rain), droughts
  • Key affected sectors: agriculture, water, energy, tourism
  • Risk of earthquakes, forest fires, water scarcity and extreme heat.
  • Vulnerable groups (e.g., those with fewer economic opportunities, elderly) are particularly at risk of natural hazards and increasing climate change impacts.

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Areas of recommendations to achieve net-zero by 2050

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Increase electrification and fuel switching

Increase energy efficiency

Accelerate transport decarbonization

Boost waste management and circularity

Protect forests’ ability to provide income and store carbon

Ensure water security and risk management

Enhanced disaster risk management, including local capacity building and community engagement

Increase transport network resilience

Climate resilient agriculture & transition to irrigated high-value agriculture (priority regions Slavonia and Central Dalmatia)

Improve climate governance and coordination

Consideration of vulnerable groups in climate policies and decision-making, engagement of people – “Whole of society” approach to climate change

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Engaging people in climate action

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Engaging people in climate action

… the young and old, poor and rich, farmers and fishing communities, urban and rural, transport and car users, water and energy consumers

… thinktanks, watchdogs and advocates, community, local and influential civil society actors and organizations, youth groups, women and vulnerable

… all are citizen climate actors

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  • Long-term pathways for low carbon, resilient, inclusive and peaceful futures require the engagement of people.
  • “Whole-of-society” approach: All of civil society included in the rapid transformation needed to respond to the climate challenge
  • Engaging people to enhance accountability, efficiency, and the equitable use of climate financing
  • Increase of public trust, transparency and ownership
  • Considers the voice and agency of youth and women, and includes vulnerable groups, a central pillar of just transitions

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Thank you

Julian Lee

jlee7@worldbank.org

CROATIA

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

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Josip Funda

jfunda@worldbank.org

Nicholas Elms

nelms@worldbank.org