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The report highlights accelerating heat, drought, wildfires, flash floods, and landslides, and how interconnected hazards trigger cascading effects across health, productivity, food systems, waste management, and infrastructure. It argues that coordinated adaptation investment and a net zero transition—supported by structural reforms—can deliver greener, more resilient growth aligned with EU accession ambitions.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nEUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA  \n WESTERN BALKANS 6  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nWorld Bank Group  \nOctober 2024  \nExecutive Summary  \nThe Western Balkans (WB6) comprise six upper-middle-income economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia) that have performed well over the past 20 years. The six economies doubled their output from 2000–22 and raised their per capita income commensurately. The WB6 are small, open economies, with expanding trade and significant levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) and remittances. About 73 percent of the Western Balkan’s exports went to the European Union (EU), and 68 percent of their imports came from the EU.  \nSurrounded by EU countries, the WB6 set their sights squarely on the EU as an anchor for their future development, and they are at various stages of accession to the EU or application for membership. In November 2023, the EU announced a new growth plan for the Western Balkans, based on enhancing economic integration with the EU’s Single Market, boosting economic integration within the WB6 through the Common Regional Market, accelerating fundamental reforms, and increasing financial assistance. In the presence of climate-change related challenges, the EU’s role as an anchor for WB6 development becomes even more important, because it plays an important role in establishing the institutional foundations for greener and more resilient growth and for making resources available.  \nThis Regional Western Balkans Countries Climate and Development Report (CCDR) stands out in several ways. In a region that often lacks cohesive regional alliances, this report emphasizes how the challenges faced across countries are often common and interconnected, and, importantly, that climate action requires coordination on multiple fronts. Simultaneously, it illustrates the differences across countries, places, and people that require targeted strategies and interventions. This report demonstrates how shocks and stressors are intensifying and how investments in adaptation could bring significant benefits in the form of avoided losses, accelerated economic potential, and amplified social and economic spillovers. Given the region’s high emission and energy intensity and the limitations of its current fossil fuel-based development model, the report articulates a path to greener and more resilient growth, a path that is more consistent with the aspiration of accession to the EU. The report finds that the net zero transition can be undertaken without compromising the economic potential of the Western Balkans and that it could lead to higher growth than under the Reference Scenario (RS) with appropriate structural reforms.  \nThe policy recommendations in this report are ambitious, but they are realistic and realizable. This report categorizes recommended policies according to the 3T framework: transversal, transboundary, and targeted policies. Transversal policies can help integrate adaptation and mitigation efforts across various sectors requiring high-level coordination mechanisms, strengthened institutional capacity, and the establishment of climate-focused agencies or commissions. Transboundary policies are needed to foster cooperation across borders, acknowledging the interplay among climate change, trade, human security, and shared natural resources. Targeted policies tailor solutions to local conditions, drive technological and economic transitions, and ensure that no one is left behind in the transition.  \nThe region is in the crosshairs of a burgeoning climate crisis  \nThe Western Balkans have seen a surge in heat-related stressors—mainly heightened temperatures and intensified droughts—that threaten to undermine regional stability and productivity. 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