{"id":190490,"date":"2025-02-04T05:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-world-bank-warns-zimbabwe-on-climate-induced-economic-losses\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:02:36","slug":"zimbabwe-world-bank-warns-zimbabwe-on-climate-induced-economic-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-world-bank-warns-zimbabwe-on-climate-induced-economic-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: World Bank Warns Zimbabwe On Climate-Induced Economic Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The World Bank (WB) has warned that climate change could erode up to 12 percent of Zimbabwe&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) annually if the country does not implement robust measures to tackle the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In its latest Zimbabwe economic update report launched Friday in Harare, Zimbabwe&#8217;s capital, the WB urged Zimbabwe to bolster resilience against climate-related shocks, focusing on agriculture as a critical pillar of the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Statistics from the Zimbabwean government show agriculture&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502030683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank (WB) has warned that climate change could erode up to 12 percent of Zimbabwe&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) annually if the country does not implement robust measures to tackle the phenomenon. In its latest Zimbabwe economic update report launched Friday in Harare, Zimbabwe&#8217;s capital, the WB urged Zimbabwe to bolster resilience against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7089,50571,3576,9741,257,254,6853,5093,4686,421],"class_list":["post-190490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-climateinduced","tag-economic","tag-losses","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-world","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}