Essential Reading

I. Outcomes

II.  Meeting Documents

III. Further Reading

IV. Other Articles

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I. Outcomes

• Co-Chairs' Summary by Lena Sommestad, Minister for the Environment, Sweden, and Richard Manning, Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee
• Declaration on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation, adopted by Development and Environment Ministers of OECD Member Countries on 4 April 2006
• Framework for Common Action Around Shared Goals, adopted by OECD Development and Environment Ministers on 4 April 2006

II.  Meeting Documents

• Agenda and Issues Paper

      Country Statements

• German Joint Statements on Financial Issues by Heidemarie Wieczorket-Zeul, the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development and Astrid Klug, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• Norway's views

III. Further Reading   

• Paris High Level Declaration on Aid Effectiveness - Ownership, Harmonisation, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability, 2005
  The Declaration was endorsed on 2 March 2005 at the Second High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness where over one hundred Ministers, Heads of Agencies and other Senior Officials signed and committed their countries and institutions to continue and increase efforts in harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results with a set of monitorable actions and indicators.
• OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century (OECD, 2001)
  OECD Environment Ministers adopted an ambitious OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century when they met on 16 May 2001. Their colleagues, the Ministers of Finance and Economy, endorsed it when they met OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level the following day. The OECD Environmental Strategy aims to provide clear directions for environmentally sustainable policies in OECD member countries, and guides the work of the OECD in the field of environment.
• Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development (OECD, 2005)
  This book is the product of a collaborative effort between the OECD Environment and Development Co-operation directorates on mainstreaming responses to climate change in development planning and assistance. This volume synthesises insights from six country case studies that review climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, analyse relevant national plans and aid investments in terms of their exposure and attention to climate risks, and examine in-depth key systems where climate change is closely intertwined with development and natural resource management. The case studies cover the Nepal Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the Nile in Egypt, the Bangladesh Sundarbans, coastal mangroves in Fiji, and agriculture and forestry sectors in Uruguay.
• DAC Guidelines on Integrating the Rio Conventions into Development Co-operation (OECD, 2002)
  This publication aims to clarify the linkages between the Rio Conventions and sustainable development, and provide insights as to how development co-operation agencies can help developing countries respond to global environmental threats.
• Poverty-Gender-Environment Linkages (OECD, DAC Journal 2002)
  Poverty reduction, economic growth and the maintenance of life-supporting environmental resources are inextricably linked. This document attempts to clarify the key linkages between these areas, with special attention paid to their gender dimension. It aims to provide an analytical road-map which could be used a reference for more detailed sector and country-specific examinations.

IV. Other Articles

• Shared Goals (OECD Observer - March 2006)
  By Lena Sommestad, Minister of the Environment, Sweden, and Richard Manning, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Climate change: A development challenge (OECD Observer - February 2005)
  By Kiyo Akasaka, OECD Deputy Secretary-General, and Shardul Agrawala, Environment Directorate
• No Room for Complacency  (OECD Observer - April 2004)
  By Martin Cullen T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland, and Chair of the 2004 Meeting of OECD Environment Ministers 
• Development challenge (OECD Observer - June 2004)
  By Richard Manning, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Putting Climate Change and Adaptation in the Development Mainstream (OECD Policy Brief, March 2006)
• Development climate (OECD Observer - January 2005)
  Brief review of OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Development and Climate Change
• The OECD Environmental Strategy: Are We on Track (OECD Observer - April 2004)
  By Lorents Lorentsen, Director, OECD Environment Directorate
• Measuring aid for water - Has the downward trend in aid for water reversed ...? (World Water Forum - Mexico, March 2006)