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The Role of Aid in Addressing Climate Change Challenges in Low-Income Countries

Aid should retain its traditional role in supporting Low-Income Countries (LIC) and Middle-Income Countries (MIC) as poverty remains widespread and severe. Climate change poses critical challenges, particularly for LIC and MIC, which often lack the resources for adaptation and mitigation. Funding trends are moving away from local environmental issues, favoring trans-boundary matters. To maximize the effectiveness of aid, it must focus on building institutions, supporting research, and fostering community-level projects while ensuring governance indicators are met to enhance aid impacts.

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The Role of Aid in Addressing Climate Change Challenges in Low-Income Countries

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  1. Aid, Environment and Climate Change – A Synthesis Wisdom Akpalu State University of New York

  2. Traditional role of aid should continue... • Aid should continue to play its traditional role • In addition aid should go to LIC and MIC as poverty is now wide spread. • It is more depressing to be poor and live among the rich than among poor peers.

  3. Emerging challenges… • The changing climate pose yet a critical challenge to the world • Low-income countries cannot internally generate the critical resources needed for adaptation or mitigate climate impact. • Funds at the global level are moving away from local environmental issues (i.e., mainly adaptation) to trans-boundary issues (i.e., mainly mitigation) • But adaptation and mitigation issues are intertwine

  4. Constraints facing developing countries • Even more serious is that LIC and MIC are failing to take advantage of the funding opportunities (REDD+, CDM, GEF, GCF) • Why?: • Limited knowledge of biophysical and management sciences • Demand uncertainties • Forest based, and not all countries are well endowed • Weak institutions, including bad governance

  5. What should foreign aid do? • Build institutions • independent academic institutions • Support collaborative research with capacity building objectives • Support community level adaptation and mitigation projects • Carry out frequent socio-economic studies to assess aid impacts. • Tie Aid to good governance indicators

  6. THANK YOU

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