Policy Analysis related to Climate Change and Development
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Climate financing and Development - Friends or foes?
There are clear overlaps but also important differences between the objectives and activities classified under Official Development Assistance (ODA) and financial flows to help developing countries address climate change (i.e. climate finance). The extent to which ODA is diverted from traditional development activities towards mitigating and adapting to climate change in developing countries has important implications. Such implications include how countries are able to reduce poverty and achieve economic growth through development but also how countries are able to cope with a changing climate. MORE
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Africa and the Global Climate Deal
Climate change is not a crisis of Africa’s making, yet it is Africans, especially the poorest, who are already suffering and stand to lose the most. Not only does it make things harder for those struggling to combat extreme poverty and disease by exacerbating the conditions of poverty, but it threatens to erode the gains that have been made in recent years: more children in school, less people dying of disease, increased food production. MORE
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ONE’S Analysis of the Outcomes of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit
The Pittsburgh Summit on 25th September was another chance to highlight the need to bring Africa into the center of the global economic recovery. MORE
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Summary of Recommendations for the 2009 Pittsburgh G20 Summit
Host an Upcoming G20 in Africa: Africa must be integrated into discussions on the global economic recovery. Made up of 900 million potential producers and consumers, Africa has enormous potential to bring long-term benefits to the rest of the world. The continent offers untapped resources-agricultural potential, economic opportunities and energy supplies-that could help resolve many of the world's current challenges. The first task of the G20 must be to bring Africa and other developing nations into the center of the global economic recovery plan. To acknowledge the importance of Africa and take the first step towards cultivating the potential of the continent, the G20 should agree to hold an upcoming Summit in Africa. Doing so will showcase the importance of the continent as a world partner and emphasize that Africa must be a part of the solution....
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The Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, leaders from 189 nations signed on to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight ambitious targets designed to significantly reduce global poverty and disease by 2015. MORE
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Climate and Development
Climate change is not a crisis of developing countries' making, yet the impacts of global warming will disproportionately hit the world's poor. MORE