Environment and climate change

Part of 'ReCom – research and communication on foreign aid' project

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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Focal point: Finn Tarp

Communications: Annett Victorero

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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
    Aid, environment and climate change
    Video
    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...

    Video
    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.

    Video
    Cost of capital: the real price of green energy

    Despite 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.

    Video
    ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part I

    At 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 and lessons learned in past successes and failures of development cooperation.

    Video
    ReCom results meeting: Aid and Our Changing Environment - Part II

    At 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 and lessons learned in past successes and failures of development cooperation.

    Video
    The Gothenburg graduates and their impact in Africa – how aid has worked

    We asked Wisdom Akpalu about the Sida-funded programme, and the role its graduates are now playing in Africa.

    Video
    Foreign aid and environmental challenges

    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.

    Video
    New landscape of poverty

    The global landscape of poverty has been changing quite dramatically during recent years.

    Working Paper
    Development Assistance and Climate Finance

    The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the ‘polluter pays’ principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate...

    Journal 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. Although this Durban ‘road map’ is promising, the international negotiation process for...

    Journal 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. With various CDM indicators for 58 CDM host countries over the period 2005-2010, this paper...

    Working Paper
    Aid and Environment in Mozambique

    Mozambique 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...

    Working Paper
    Aid and Environment in Africa

    This 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. Focusing on the funding for environmental degradation projects, the...

    Position Paper
    Aid, Environment and Climate Change

    This 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...

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    Theme: Past, 2010-11

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