Economics of Climate Change in Central and West Asia

The technical assistance (TA) seeks to address the lack of robust evidence on the options and costs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and reduce the negative effects of climate change (adaptation) in Central and West Asia.

The specialist will contribute to the development of the climate change impact assessment of the energy sector and the formulation of adaptation options.

The specialist will:

(i) develop the integrated climate impact assessment of the energy sector, including an analysis of the impacts of climate variability and change on energy production and highly vulnerable groups;

(ii) support the formulation of investment proposals;

(iii) identify adaptation policies and measures that can reduce the adverse effects of climate change on the energy sector in the target countries and ensure the inclusion of those measures in the countries’ national adaptation actions; and

(iv) carry out sensitivity analysis on key modeling assumptions and indicate the confidence intervals of the results.