Climate change and development cooperation
in South Asia

Jiten Yumnam, Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur

Sustainable development alternatives should be defined with respect for communities' rights and their rightful participation.

In this chapter, Centre for Research and Advocacy‘s Jiten Yumnam analyzes how the climate emergency remains to be effectively addressed in South Asia despite ODA for climate finance, sustainable energy projects and supposed conservation policies and recommends a consultative approach respectful of communities and biodiversity and abiding by ODA commitments, instead of resorting to a one-size-fits-all approach of large hydroelectric dam projects. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

POLITICAL CHAPTER: Aid in the Time of a Global Pandemic: Confronting the challenges of fragility, poverty and climate change

I. REFLECTIONS ON FRAGILITY, CONFLICT AND THE TRIPLE NEXUS
1. Donor interests over effective development cooperation? USAID and the “triple nexus” approach in the Philippines
2. A region embattled: Situating the Triple Nexus in the Asia-Pacific context
3. Examining the effectiveness of the Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus in the Lake Chad region
4. Engendering the Nexus: Mainstreaming gender in the Triple Nexus, a case study from Mali
5. Vision on social protection systems and social security in Palestine
6. Fragility, the challenge of our century

II. RESPONDING TO A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
1. Climate change and development cooperation in South Asia
2. The World Bank’s climate finance: Transformative change, or doubling down on neoliberal globalisation?
3. Escazu Agreement: An opportunity for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of environmental crises

III. GLOBAL AID TRENDS

1. GLOBAL AID TRENDS CHAPTER: The future of aid in the time of the pandemic: What do global aid trends reveal?
2. Challenges for the construction of South-South Cooperation by and for the people
3. International cooperation for educational justice
4. A worsening poverty landscape with COVID-19
5. Debt relief and ODA
6. A Pacific compact
7. Aid performance: Belgium called to do better
8. Canada’s international assistance: underfunded feminist ambitions
9. Does the ‘Global EU Response’ to COVID-19 match the global expectations for the biggest bloc providing ODA?
10. France: A key layer in the future of aid, despite an inadequate response to the crisis?
11. Increases in Japan’s ODA/GNI Ratio: Should we celebrate it?
12. Sweden: Drive for democracy, feminist foreign policy, climate and biodiversity remain key priorities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
13. United Kingdom: COVID as catalyst: seismic shifts in UK aid

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