Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211245 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2019/15
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages recipients to adopt climate legislation. In this paper, we examine the relationship between climate aid and recipient climate policy. Using multiple measures of each, we find no evidence that the former is systematically related to the latter. Although this suggests that climate aid is ineffective, this conclusion must be qualified due to the poor quality of both climate aid and climate policy data. More definitive conclusions will require more accurate coding of climate aid as well as better climate policy measures that distinguish truly consequential policies from less consequential ones.
Subjects: 
adaptation
climate change
mitigation
environmental policy
official development assistance
JEL: 
C19
F35
F59
Q58
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-649-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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