Content related to Climate 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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Climate Change
Climate change is not a crisis of developing countries' making, yet the impacts of global warming will disproportionately hit the world's poorest people. 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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Global climate deal ‘matter of life and death’ for millions in Africa - ONE
Finance Ministers from G20 countries meeting in Scotland this weekend are being urged to keep the world’s poorest high on their agenda as they discuss how to help developing countries adapt to the disastrous impacts of climate change – and contribute to stemming its rise. 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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“Hold G20 Summit in Africa”, anti-poverty group urges
African countries offer solutions to global economic and climate crises MORE