This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia’s development trajectory through the lens of the country’s vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia’s development risks and opportunities, models various scenarios of climate impact and intervention, and proposes ways to strengthen resilience and finance climate actions that support Liberia’s development aspirations of inclusive growth and poverty reduction. This CCDR provides numerous recommendations for climate action based on analyses of the strengths and vulnerabilities of Liberia’s economy, environment, and population. Modeling of just a few selected adaptation interventions—targeting heat stress, crop erosion, rain-fed crop production, and coastal flooding—is estimated to cut climate-induced GDP losses by more than half, reducing these losses from 15 percent of GDP to 7 percent by 2050 under the dry/hot climate scenario, regardless of growth trajectory.
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