Climate Finance - Neil Bird
Channel: GSDRC
Date: 2015-06-02

This video accompanies the GSDRC Professional Development Reading pack on Climate Finance, available at: hhttp://www.gsdrc.org/professional-dev/climate-finance-and-public-finance-management/

Much attention has been directed at the international commitments to assist developing countries respond to climate change. This is reflected in the debate over the commitments made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: at the UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries committed to jointly mobilise $100 billion climate finance per year by 2020, from public, private and alternative sources, to address the needs of developing countries. It is also reflected in the attention given to the establishment of the Green Climate Fund, which is envisaged as the main multilateral vehicle for mobilising increased climate finance, as part of the effort towards reaching the $100 billion commitment.

Neil Bird is a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, London, where he works within the Climate and Environment Programme. His current research focuses on climate change policy, the international aid architecture and its relation to climate finance. At the national level, his interests include the delivery mechanisms for climate finance, national budgetary processes, sector policies and the institutional development of public sector agencies. Neil has led several multi-country studies that have examined climate change related public expenditure as well as exploring developments and trends in global climate finance.