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Copy the text below into an email to your friends, and ask them to join you in calling on leaders not to double count money in the fight against climate change.
Campaign Milestones
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Dec 14 2009
ONE hands over Copenhagen petition
On 14 December 2009, ONE's Eloise Todd handed over the petition to Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs. She promised to pass the petition onto Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who as host of the Copenhagen talks, is one of the people best placed to stop the dangerous double counting.
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Dec 19 2009
Without ‘additionality’ of climate funds, Copenhagen adds up to nothing
As world leaders fly home from the climate change summit, the agreement reached in Copenhagen could add up to nothing unless the funding offered is not double counted from existing aid promises. Late last night an agreement was brokered by the US, China, South Africa, India and Brazil. This included $10bn a year in so called ‘fast track’ financing for the next 3 years and $100bn a year by 2020 for poor countries to cope with climate change. But currently these sums will largely be subtracted from promised resources to help these same countries fight poverty.
Related Policy Analysis
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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