Climate change and development cooperation: trends and questions

Gupta, Joyeeta

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.10.004

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“…This period is characterized by four trends: first, evaporation of the post-cold war optimism in the face of political and economic realities; second, serious questioning of the argument that major developing countries should be temporarily exempted from meaningful action; third, the leadership paradigm evolved into conditional leadership-with lower targets for developed countries and permission to achieve targets via investments in other countries, 36 and inadequate resources for assistance; and fourth, there were disagreements and a hardening of positions within most coalitions of countries.…”

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“…Resources for climate assistance were low and a new discussion emerged about the need for mainstreaming climate change into development 44 and development cooperation. 36 The EU did its best to push the climate change discussions and take the lead and in this period, it 'has ensured its survival and current momentum. It continues to bear a historic responsibility for its success'.…”

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A history of international climate change policy

Gupta

2010

WIREs Climate Change

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This article presents an overview of the history of international climate change policy over the last 30 years, divided into five periods. It examines the pre-1990 period, the period leading up to the adoption of the Climate Change Convention, the period of the Kyoto Protocol until US withdrawal, the period thereafter focusing on the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, and the post-2008 period that coincides with the financial crisis. For each period, it discusses the relevant science, actors, and coalitions, the agreements emerging in that period, and the key issues and the major trends. In doing so, it examines the evolving articulation of the leadership paradigm, which is the centerpiece of the discussion on how climate change should be addressed. The article shows (1) the increasing complexity of the definition of the climate change issue from an environmental to a development issue; (2) the inability of the developed countries to reduce their own emissions and raise funds commensurate with the nature of the problem and their initial commitments;(3) the increasing engagement of different social actors in the discussion and, in particular, the gradual use of market mechanisms in the regime; (4) the increasing search for alternative solutions within the formal negotiations-such as the identification of nationally appropriate mitigation actions for the developing world, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the use of geo-engineering solutions; and (5) the search for solutions outside the regime-the mobilization of sub-national policies on climate change, litigation, and markets on biofuels.

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A history of international climate change policy

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2010

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“…A review undertaken of interventions labelled as 'adaptation' found that in practice, adaptation and development are not implemented as discreet interventions, but instead lie along a continuum between those that overlap almost completely with development, and those focused specifically on climate impacts (McGray, Hammill, & Bradley, 2007). Accordingly, there is broad agreement within both the climate and development community that an integrated approach to doing adaptation and development makes sense (Ayers & Dodman, 2010;Gupta, 2009;IPCC, 2007).…”

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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development in Bangladesh

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Wright

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Climate and Development

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The close linkages between climate change adaptation and development have led to calls for addressing the two issues in an integrated way. 'Mainstreaming' climate information, policies and measures into ongoing development planning and decision-making has been proposed as one solution, making a more sustainable, effective and efficient use of resources than designing and managing climate policies separately from ongoing activities. But what does mainstreaming look like in practice? This paper reviews the process of mainstreaming in Bangladesh, one of the countries that has made significant progress on adaptation planning and mainstreaming. The paper begins by making the case for mainstreaming, by exploring linkages and trade-offs between adaptation and development and reviewing the literature on mainstreaming. Second, it considers how to implement mainstreaming in practice, reviewing an existing four-step framework. Examining this framework against the plethora of mainstreaming experiences in Bangladesh, the paper considers how the framework can be used as a tool to review progress on mainstreaming in Bangladesh. The paper concludes that while the framework is useful for considering some of the preconditions necessary for mainstreaming, experiences in Bangladesh reflect a much more complex patchwork of processes and stakeholders that need to be taken into consideration in further research.

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“…So despite emerging from separate arenas, the synergies between climate change adaptation and development have been explicitly recognized: addressing the underlying development deficit builds adaptive capacity to manage both climate and other risks; but doing so without also acknowledging the risks climate places on development investment risks maladaptation. Accordingly, there is broad agreement within both the climate and development community that an integrated approach to doing adaptation and development makes sense …”

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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development: a case study of Bangladesh

Ayers

Huq

Faisal

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WIREs Climate Change

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The close linkages between climate change adaptation and development have led to calls for addressing the two issues in an integrated way. ‘Mainstreaming’ climate information, policies and measures into ongoing development planning and decision‐making has been proposed as one solution, seen as making more sustainable, effective and efficient use of resources than designing and managing climate policies separately from ongoing development activities. But what does mainstreaming look like in practice? This article explores the process of mainstreaming, drawing on the country case study of Bangladesh, one of the countries that have made significant progress on adaptation planning and mainstreaming. The article begins by making the case for mainstreaming, by exploring the linkages and trade‐offs between adaptation and development and describing the various approaches to mainstreaming from the literature. Second, it considers how to implement mainstreaming in practice, reviewing an existing four‐step framework. Examining this framework against the plethora of mainstreaming experiences in Bangladesh, the article considers how the framework can be used as a tool for assessing the progress of mainstreaming progress in Bangladesh. The article concludes that while the framework is useful for considering some of the preconditions necessary for getting mainstreaming underway, experiences of mainstreaming in Bangladesh reflect a much more complex patchwork of processes and stakeholders that need to be taken into consideration in further research on this topic. WIREs Clim Change 2014, 5:37–51. doi: 10.1002/wcc.226 This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Knowledge and Action in Development

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Climate change and development cooperation: trends and questions

Cited by 28 publications

References 36 publications

A history of international climate change policy

A history of international climate change policy

Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development in Bangladesh

Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development: a case study of Bangladesh

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