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Climate change impacts such as drought, floods, severe weather and sea-level rise are likely to result in a range of development risks and threats. These negative impacts of climate change will hit poor people and poor countries disproportionately. Key challenges for development community are to ensure that climate change adaptation is integrated at all levels of development decision-makings: policies, plans, programmes and projects. Furthermore, adequate financial resources need to be channeled to finance activities to combat climate change. 

 

With this background, our work on climate change focus on three pillars:1) climate change adaptation; 2) climate change finance effectiveness; 3) measuring climate-related aid.

 

1. Climate Change Adaptation

OECD Development Assistance Committee and Environmental Policy Committee jointly formed a task team to address climate change challenges. In 2009, The task team developed a guidance to integrate adaptation into development co-operation, as well as working papers to address specific issues related to adaptation. Germany is organisng a training course for development practitioners based on the guidance.

 

OECD Policy Guidance on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation

The OECD has developed a Guidance to provide development co-operation policy makers and practitioners with information and advice on how to mainstream climate change adaptation into development.

 

OECD Climate Change Task Team

The task team, DAC-EPOC Joint Task Team on Climate Change and Development Co-operation, is a group of experts on the issue of climate change, particularly on climate change adaptation. The task team is currently developing working papers on special topics related to adaptation - e.g. monitoring and evaluation, the role of private sector. The task team meets once or twice a year.

 

Training courses

Germany, an active member of the task team developed training modules to communicate the messages of the adaptation guidance to development practitioners. Ten training modules introduce the key steps for climate change adaptation. Working with the case of the fictitious state of Zanadu, participants simulate the process of addressing climate adaptation in their decision-making.

 

More information on OECD work climate change adaptation:   www.oecd.org/env/cc/adaptation 

 

2. Climate Change Finance Effectiveness

Climate change finance is set to increase substantially throughout this decade as donors move to meet their pledges under the UNFCCC.  Over the next eight years funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation will have to increase tenfold, from the USD 30 billion pledged in fast start financing for the three years up to 2012 to a target of USD 100 billion annually by 2020.  The potential scale of this funding makes the effectiveness of its delivery and use critical not only for the impact of mitigation and adaptation measures but also for development outcomes and poverty reduction.

 

OECD, in partnership with UNDP and other supporters, are providing lessons from development co-operation to be applied in the context of climate finance (read more).

 

3. Measuring climate-related aid

The OECD-DAC collects data on levels of official development assistance (ODA) targeting the objectives of the UNFCCC through the so-called Rio markers. Currently, ODA data on climate change mitigation is available from 2002 on, and data on adaptation is available from 2010 flow (read more).

 

 

 

 

Related Documents

 

OECD Policy Guidance on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Adaptation to Climate Change

Climate Change and Development: Key Principles to Inform Climate Change Financing