Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Climate cooperation from Kyoto to Paris: What can be learnt from the CDM experience?

“…As far as ODA projects are concerned, Costantini and Mele [45] and Roberts and Parks [46] pointed out the issue of missing/incomplete data in ODA flows. Accordingly, in order not to blunder in the error of evaluating partial data or generalising conclusions based on few data, we perform a search on the official project-level database AidData 2.1 [47], which provides the complete list of financial flows from donors to recipients according to the official communications given by governments and international organizations [48].…”

“…Accordingly, in order not to blunder in the error of evaluating partial data or generalising conclusions based on few data, we perform a search on the official project-level database AidData 2.1 [47], which provides the complete list of financial flows from donors to recipients according to the official communications given by governments and international organizations [48]. AidData is a project-level database that, gathering information from the OECD Creditor Reporting System database, donor annual reports and project documents from aid agencies, provides information on environmental-oriented aid flows directed to developing countries that can be broadly defined as green aid [45]. Because the AidData database does not explicitly provide information on all the variables described above, for an effective comparison between the CDM and ODA, a project-level search has been performed, extrapolating data from each Project Information Document (PID).…”

“…4 It has to be noted that the volatility of financial flows from developed to developing countries is unanimously recognised as one of the biggest problems for international cooperation. See for example [56,57,45].…”