Aligning Development Co-operation and Climate Action by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: environment/development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Paris-aligned development co-operation is both top-down and bottom-up

The Paris Agreement advances a top-down, global approach to climate action while facilitating implementation through bottom-up, country-driven processes. The global objectives of the Agreement describe a desired collective outcome of countries’ climate action. The aim of this combined top-down and bottom-up approach is to maximise coherence by ensuring that countries take climate action in the context of reaching the shared goals. While its goals are ambitious, the Agreement allows countries to tailor their approaches to individual contexts and needs. Country-level mechanisms outlined in the Agreement, most notably NDCs and LTSs, constitute the primary bottom-up, country-driven processes for achieving the Agreement’s overarching objectives. Development actors are already working to ensure that activities support transformative change along both dimensions.

Development co-operation providers’ approach to climate action is embodied in their strategies, programmes and operations. In the context of the top-down and bottom-up approaches underpinning the Agreement, this report focuses on how providers can set and pursue goals within their own organisations that are consistent with the top-down approach, while also ensuring that development co-operation activities support bottom-up processes in developing countries.

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