Aligning Development Co operation and Climate Action : The Only Way Forward Climate change is altering the ecological and social systems that underpin human well being and economic activity and developing countries are particularly vulnerable to its impact on the growth and sustainable development prospects of every sector and community. Being part of the solution requires all providers of development co operation to align their activities with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. However many still lack the mandates resources incentives and strategies to do so. This report outlines how providers can make changes at home in developing countries and in the international development co operation system to help create low emissions climate resilient economies and how they can avoid supporting activities that lock the world into an unsustainable future.