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Climate change poses humanity’s biggest challenge. With climate change now an urgent priority, what can we learn from past successes of development co-operation in the environmental area, its failures, and how can some of these successes be scaled-up in the area of climate change adaption?
Foreign aid has always had a role in addressing environmental issues and in helping with natural disasters. In this animation we look at how aid works in relation to climate change. The film is part of a series produced by UNU-WIDER on the project ‘ReCom–Research and Communication on Foreign Aid’. It can for instance be used when teaching students about environmental challenges.
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Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Policy Brief
Development aid by itself cannot ‘save the planet’. Yet, development aid and institutions have the potential to remain important catalytic actors in achieving developmental and global environmental objectives...
Foreign aid Climate change EnvironmentVideo
Research communication: Why doesn’t research turn into policy?At the recent UNU-WIDER research conference on development and climate change, the communications team took the opportunity to ask participants visiting us here in Helsinki for their views on how research turns into policy. We heard many interesting...
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Chinese aid to Africa: the true (but not final) picture'Chinese aid is no different from American', says Michael Tierney, associate professor of International Relations at the College of William and Mary, USA, and the director of the AidData Center for Development Policy.
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Cost of capital: the real price of green energyDespite massive potential investments, green energy is not up to speed in Africa. The reason is not the cost or durability of the technology but a financial factor—the cost of capital.
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ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part IAt the 4 June Stockholm ReCom results meeting renowned researchers, academics and politicians from the Global South and North, as well as high profile policy makers from donor recipient countries reflected on global trends in the “greening” of aid...
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ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part IIAt the 4 June Stockholm ReCom results meeting renowned researchers, academics and politicians from the Global South and North, as well as high profile policy makers from donor recipient countries reflected on global trends in the “greening” of aid...
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The Gothenburg graduates and their impact in Africa – how aid has workedWe asked Wisdom Akpalu about the Sida-funded programme, and the role its graduates are now playing in Africa.
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Foreign aid and environmental challengesForeign aid has always had a role in addressing environmental issues and in helping with natural disasters. In this animation we look at how aid works in relation to climate change.
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New landscape of povertyThe global landscape of poverty has been changing quite dramatically during recent years.
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Development Assistance and Climate FinanceThe distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the ‘polluter pays’ principle...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Global warming Climate changeJournal Article
Is the Clean Development Mechanism effective for emission reductions?The UNFCCC COP 17 Durban conference confirmed the need to reach an all-party-inclusive global climate agreement by 2015 as the successor of the Kyoto Protocol...
Climate change Econometrics EnvironmentJournal Article
Has the Clean Development Mechanism Assisted Sustainable Development?One of the dual objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol is to assist host countries in achieving sustainable development...
Climate change Environment Panel analysisWorking Paper
Aid and Environment in MozambiqueMozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects EnvironmentWorking Paper
Aid and Environment in Africa: The Case of TanzaniaThis paper provides an assessment of what aid has actually been doing in the area of environment in Tanzania through a critical review of the flows, modalities and management of aid...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Environmental policyPosition Paper
Aid, Environment and Climate ChangeThis position paper on Aid, Environment, and Climate Change, prepared under the UNU-WIDER ReCom programme of Research (Re) and Communication (Com) on foreign aid, is intended to improve the understanding of the role foreign aid has played and can hel...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Environmental economicsContext
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Theme: Past, 2010-11