BOX 1.4 The World Bank’s Climate Portal The Web-based World Bank Climate Change Data Portal provides quick and accessible global climate and climate-related data to the development community. The site is based on the familiar Google Maps platform and allows users to access outputs from climate models, historical climate observations, natural disaster data, crop yield projections, and socioeconomic data at any point on the globe. The site includes a mapping visualization tool (webGIS) that displays key climate variables and links to World Bank databases and a spatially referenced knowledge base. The portal will also serve as a launching point for climate change tools, and includes the ADAPT tool for assessing climate risk of World Bank projects.
Source: http://worldbank.org/climateportal/.
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