Climate Change and Development

Climate change is a major risk to sustainable development and is threatening global efforts to eradicate poverty. So how should we tackle this challenge through our international development program?

Presentations

We take you through an introduction to climate change and development issues and provide some best practice examples of integrating climate action in program design, monitoring and evaluation.

Click on the below links to watch the videos, listen to the audio-only versions, or view the PowerPoint presentations. The PowerPoint presentations includes 'Notes', and audio/animations - we recommend you open the .pptx files, select the 'Slide Show' tab and play them from the start.

Climate Finance & AidWorks 

Watch the video | Listen to the audio-only version | View the PowerPoint Presentation [22.4MB]

Further resources:

• Introduction to Climate Finance, UNFCCC website
• Delivering on our Climate Finance Commitments, DFAT website
• Annual ODA Statistical Summary Reports, DFAT website

DFAT's Climate Change Action Strategy 

Watch the video | Listen to the audio-only version | View the PowerPoint Presentation [14MB]

Gender Equality and Climate Change 

Watch the video | Listen to the audio-only version | View the PowerPoint Presentation [11.9MB]

Good Practice Examples of Integration

Watch the video | Listen to the audio-only version | View the PowerPoint Presentation [170MB]

Social Inclusion & Climate Change: Leaving No One Behind

Watch the video | Listen to the audio-only version | View the PowerPoint Presentation [12.9MB]

International Best Practice

For international best practice on climate and development, please see the following external website links:

Asian Development Bank

• Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management website

Australia Pacific Climate Partnership

• The Australia Pacific Climate Partnership's website

Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT)

• Climate Change Action Strategy
• Climate Change and Resilience work in the Pacific

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• The OECD Development Assistance Committee Environment and Development website

United Nations

• Sustainable Development Goal 13 - Urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• The UN and Climate Change website

The World Bank

• Climate Change website with research, data and project information

Head back to the Climate Change, Energy and the Environment Toolkit for more.

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Image: Local farmer Nguyen Van Son pulls a fish trap from the water at his sustainable shrimp farm at Vinh Hau A, Hua Binh, Bac Lieu Province. Credit: GIZ, Harald Franzen