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1. Acting on Climate Finance Pledges: Inter-Agency Dynamics and Relationships with Aid in Contributor States.

Author

Pickering, Jonathan, Skovgaard, Jakob, Kim, Soyeun, Roberts, J. Timmons, Rossati, David, Stadelmann, Martin, and Reich, Hendrikje

Subjects
*ENVIRONMENTAL remediation costs, *CLIMATE change, *INTERNATIONAL economic assistance, *DECISION making in political science, *INTERNATIONAL agencies, *INTERGOVERNMENTAL cooperation, DEVELOPING countries
Abstract

Summary Developed countries have relied heavily on aid budgets to fulfill their pledges to boost funding for addressing climate change in developing countries. However, little is known about how interaction between aid and other ministries has shaped contributors’ diverse approaches to climate finance. This paper investigates intra-governmental dynamics in decision-making on climate finance in seven contributor countries (Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US). While aid agencies retained considerable control over implementation, environment and finance ministries have played an influential and often contrasting role on key policy issues, including distribution between mitigation and adaptation and among geographical regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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2. Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid

Author

Katharina Michaelowa, Axel Michaelowa, University of Zurich, and Michaelowa, Axel

Subjects
Economics and Econometrics, development assistance, Sociology and Political Science, Political economy of climate change, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Control variable, Climate change, 2002 Economics and Econometrics, adaptation, Development, Public choice, Climate policy, mitigation, Politics, 3305 Geography, Planning and Development, 3312 Sociology and Political Science, Political science, Perception, 320 Political science, Economics, public choice, Adaptation (computer science), media_common, Public economics, 3303 Development, business.industry, climate policy, Public relations, 10113 Institute of Political Science, Ideology, Construct (philosophy), International development, business, Public support, project coding, Coding (social sciences)
Abstract

During the last few decades, general awareness has increased that along with problems of international development, environmental problems, notably with respect to climate change, represent yet another global challenge. In an attempt to win further public support for aid expenditures, aid administrations may have tried to make use of this trend in public perception by labeling some of their aid activities as conducive to the mitigation of, or the adaptation to, climate change. In this case, whether a donor reports a project with a climate-related “Rio marker” should depend not only on the actual content of the project, but also on the national voters’ ecological preferences, meteorological extreme events, or the media coverage of international climate policy issues.In our paper we test these hypotheses using project-level aid data and country-level political data for 21 DAC donors from 1995 to 2007. Keyword search in the project descriptions of the PLAID database and complementary hand-coding allows us to assess all projects for their actual climate change-related content, and to thereby construct our most relevant control variables. We then econometrically analyze the impact of political factors on climate aid reporting, in a multilevel setting, controlling for a number of additional project-level and donor country characteristics. Our results reveal that indeed, coding is influenced systematically by political factors. Further factors are a misinterpretation of the Rio marker, and insufficient coding diligence.

Published
2011