Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?
Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging $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...
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| description | Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging $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 article, 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4112098a68554182bbfef3acbde50f402022-12-22T02:08:25ZengCogitatioPolitics and Governance2183-24632019-06-0172689210.17645/pag.v7i2.18401002Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us?Daniel Yuichi Kono0Gabriella R. Montinola1Department of Political Science, University of California - Davis, USADepartment of Political Science, University of California - Davis, USAClimate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging $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 article, 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.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1840adaptationclimate changeclimate policyenvironmental policyforeign aidmitigation |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Yuichi Kono Gabriella R. Montinola Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us? Politics and Governance adaptation climate change climate policy environmental policy foreign aid mitigation |
| title | Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us? |
| title_full | Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us? |
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| title_short | Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy: What Can(’t) the Data Tell Us? |
| title_sort | foreign aid and climate change policy what can t the data tell us |
| topic | adaptation climate change climate policy environmental policy foreign aid mitigation |
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