Foreign aid and climate change policy: What can('t) the data tell us?

Daniel Y. Kono and Gabriella R. Montinola

No wp-2019-15, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

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.

Keywords: Adaptation; Climate change; Climate change mitigation; Environmental policy; Official development assistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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