The political economy of climate finance effectiveness in developing countries

• Verfasst von: Purdon, Mark [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The political economy of climate finance effectiveness in developing countries
• Titelzusatz: carbon markets, climate funds, and the state
• Verf.angabe: Mark Purdon
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in comparative energy and environmental politics
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775686-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197756836.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Environment and Ecology
• Sach-SW: The environment
• K10plus-PPN: 1900814234
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

'The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries' reports detailed, empirical findings from field-based comparative research into three international climate finance instruments in developing countries. It brings comparative political economy of development research more fully into dialogue with climate change politics, particularly with regard to least developed countries.

Abstract

"This book contributes to debates about the effectiveness of climate finance instruments for engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation. It is based on empirical investigation of the effectiveness and implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) as well as Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in Tanzania, Uganda and Moldova over a ten-year period from 2008 to 2018. While the CDM emerged as the main climate finance instrument for engaging developing countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the carbon market approach it embodied would largely be replaced by a new array of climate finance instruments based on climate funds. It is argued that this has been part of a broader shift away from liberal environmentalism since the 2008 global financial crisis towards a new set of global environmental norms described as developmental environmentalism. The main argument advanced in the book is that, despite this shift in global environmental norms, differences in state development policy paradigms and development interests explain enduring patterns of CDM, REDD+ and NAMA effectiveness and implementation in Tanzania, Uganda and Moldova over the period investigated. All three climate finance instruments were consistently more effectively implemented in Uganda and Moldova than Tanzania, despite differences in state capacity between East Africa and a country of former Soviet Union. Such findings might inform the design of international and transnational efforts to engage developing countries on climate change mitigation by emphasizing the importance that needs to be accorded to domestic politics, particularly the state"-- Provided by publisher