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.
In December 2009 policy makers met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to negotiate a global climate deal. These negotiations focussed on reaching consensus on how to respond to climate change worldwide.
Yet Africa will lose out if money pledged by rich countries at the Copenhagen does not come in addition to their existing aid promises.
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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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Turning climate challenges into development opportunities
“The two defining challenges of our century” Professor Lord Stern told a lunchtime audience yesterday, “are climate change and world poverty”. Indeed the interplay between the two will be one of the critical factors in progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. To paraphrase Stern: climate change has the ... More
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Climate change panel must be about action, not words
Tucked away in the accord agreed in December’s Copenhagen climate change summit was a promise to form a ‘High Level Panel’ to examine how exactly the target of mobilising $100bn a year for developing countries by 2020 would be reached. Now, after a frustrating delay, it appears that the ... More
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In Davos
Met James Harding, editor of the Times, in the security line on the way in to main congress centre in Davos and we caught up. His paper is worried that the UK political parties aren’t having a straight conversation about the use of development aid, but the Times coverage ... More
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Africa a big loser if climate finance is not additional
Africa will lose out if money pledged by rich countries at the Copenhagen climate change meeting last December does not come in addition to their existing aid promises. This is the stark message in a research paper from leading development think tank the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), commissioned by ONE ... More
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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 ... More
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Baaba Maal Talks Climate
Yesterday I had the honour of speaking to Senegalese singer and guitarist Baaba Maal after he had performed at a special event here in Copenhagen.Watch the video:Baaba Maal, one of Africa’s most famous musicians, is attending the Copenhagen summit as the climate change ambassador for Africa Talks ... 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