Content related to Climate and Development
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Green Economic Growth for Africa
Two of the challenges that will define this century are overcoming world poverty and managing climate change. The interplay between the two will be one of the critical factors in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. Climate change has the potential to undermine recent gains in reducing extreme poverty, while the cost of reaching the MDGs rises by 40% when climate proofing is taken into account. Our approach to mitigating and adapting to climate change must therefore be ambitious, adequately funded, but also sensitive to Africa’s legitimate desire for economic development. Cancún can be a turning point at which countries signal a shift to more sustainable and equitable economic development and poverty alleviation – and in which the African Lion economies have a central role to play. More
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Living Proof
Living Proof is about telling the real story of the incredible progress being achieved by some of the world's poorest people, backed by governments like ours. More
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Millennium Development Goals
The MDGs are more than just a mouthful. They're 8 poverty-fighting goals-agreed to by more than 180 nations. More
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Open Letter On Securing Better Climate Finance Promises
ONE has written to all delegates at the Bonn UN climate conference calling for them to adopt a simple set of principles to scrutinise any financial promise from developed countries. They are called the TRACK principles - in other words is the promise Transparent, Results-oriented, Additional, are any Conditionalities clear, and how will we know whether it is being Kept? More
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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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Without ‘additionality’ of climate funds, Copenhagen adds up to nothing
An agreement of $10bn a year in fast track financing for the next three years and $100bn a year by 2020 for poor countries to cope with climate change must come over and above existing aid promises, Africa advocacy group ONE said today. Currently these sums will largely be subtracted from promised resources to help these same countries fight poverty. More
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EU leaders put off big climate finance questions
EU Development Ministers must affirm that climate finance additional to existing and promised aid at their meeting in Copenhagen Monday 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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Global Call to Action Against Poverty
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women’s and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality. More
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Copenhagen
In the run up to the 2009 Copenhagen climate change meeting ONE members asked Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen to stop world leaders double counting money that is meant to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
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