Incorporating Climate Change into EU Development Cooperation Policy

MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: THEORY, PRACTICE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION, pp. 169-205, Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010

39 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2010

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Thijs F. M. Etty

VU University Amsterdam - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), and VU Law Faculty, Transnational Legal Studies Department

Nicolien van der Grijp

VU University Amsterdam

Date Written: November 1, 2009

Abstract

This chapter investigates the extent to which the European Union (EU)1 has incorporated climate change into its development cooperation policy. It describes the EU’s development cooperation policy, its evolution and its main principles (see Section 6.2), and focuses on the process of delivering aid (see Section 6.2.5).

Subsequently, this chapter explains how the policy areas of climate change and development cooperation have become linked over time (see Section 6.3), elaborates on how current EU policy incorporates climate change into development cooperation (see Section 6.3.2), and outlines the policy tools that are employed to incorporate environmental issues in general, and climate change in particular, into development cooperation programming (see Section 6.3.3). Finally, it assesses the current status of climate incorporation in EU development cooperation (see Section 6.4), and draws conclusions (see Section 6.5).

Keywords: climate change, development cooperation, mainstreaming, EU, law, policy, aid, adaptation, mitigation, environmental integration, UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Policy coherence for development, official development assistance (ODA)

JEL Classification: K32, K33, O00, O13, Q20

Suggested Citation

Etty, Thijs F. M. and van der Grijp, Nicolien, Incorporating Climate Change into EU Development Cooperation Policy (November 1, 2009). MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: THEORY, PRACTICE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION, pp. 169-205, Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1723804

Thijs F. M. Etty (Contact Author)

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Nicolien Van der Grijp

VU University Amsterdam ( email )

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Amsterdam, ND North Holland 1081 HV
Netherlands

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