International Climate Assistance: Innovations in Global North-South Cooperation

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🔬研究者:Provides a comprehensive mapping of current adaptation finance trends and institutional changes, useful for scholars of climate policy and international relations.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights key shifts in climate assistance architecture that should inform national positions on funding mechanisms and bilateral cooperation strategies.

Current features and trends in North-South international assistance aimed at enhancing societal adaptation to the impacts of climate change and reducing the risks of devastating natural disasters in vulnerable developing and small island states are analyzed. The study focuses on the challenges and issues of adaptation. A new dynamic in North-South interaction is found, along with the growing role of developing countries in multilateral diplomacy within the existing international regime of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC), including issues of responsibility, compensation for loss and damage, and the reduction of vulnerability. These may be regarded as key drivers of the started restructuring of the global system of multilateral climate assistance. The findings indicate signifi cant recent quantitative changes, with projected tripling of its flows over the next decade, accompanied by qualitative shifts in structure, tendencies, drivers, institutions, and instruments. These changes imply a diversification of traditional official development assistance tools through the involvement of new South-South participants, the use of additional sources, including combining public and private flows, bilateral assistance, carbon markets, as well as simplified and accelerated access to assistance for recipients aff ected by natural disasters. New international mechanisms for reducing loss and damage from emergencies are examined, including the recently established multilateral Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, as well as the growing trend toward combining fi nancial flows with the transfer of technologies and competencies, which may serve as an eff ective mechanism for building endogenous adaptive capacity in vulnerable countries and promoting sustainable development. The research methodology is based on a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis within a systemic interdisciplinary framework. It was applied to study the trends, characteristics, factors, linkages, and instruments of polycentric North-South cooperation for adaptation and implementation of the international climate regime provisions in the context of ongoing transformations in the global economics. Documents from the UN FCCC database and national country reports were used for the study.

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