The proposed Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development (SFCCD) will be a means to articulate the WBG's vision on how to integrate climate change and development challenges, without compromising growth and poverty reduction efforts through its country operations, including policy dialogue, lending, and analytical work in client countries, and through its regional and global operations. Scaling-up WBG action on climate change rests on: a continued priority for economic growth, poverty reduction and achieving MDGs in developing countries; an understanding that access to energy services and increased energy use by developing countries are fundamental to these goals; and a recognition that adaptation to climate variability and change is critical to sustaining and furthering development gains in the majority of developing countries.