At the initial meetings in the Special Development Fund (SDF) 7 Replenishment process, SDF Contributors agreed that one of the core themes for SDF 7 would be supporting environmental sustainability and advancing the climate change agenda.
Contributors requested a paper setting out the Bank’s strategy for addressing this theme during SDF 7, together with a results framework. This paper reviews the context and responses to date on environmental issues in the Region, including the Bank’s past operations, and then sets out a proposed operational strategy on environmental sustainability, natural hazard risk reduction and climate change for the SDF 7 period.