Volume 1
Global climate change and sustainable development : third report of Session 2001-02 / International Development Committee.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
- Date:
- 2002
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Global climate change and sustainable development : third report of Session 2001-02 / International Development Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![120. We agree with David Crichton that there is a certain irony in the World Bank insisting on insurance during construction for infrastructure projects but no continuing requirement for insurance once the bridge or road is handed over.**” DFID should examine whether there should a requirement for continuing insurance cover once a project 1s completed and handed over. This should include an assessment of how developing countries could finance such a requirement. | Climate change in the policies of developing countries 121. The likely impacts described in chapter 2 mean climate change is of direct relevance to development goals such as tackling poverty, ensuring food security, water, access to sanitary living conditions, and access to energy.**' We have already seen that the most adverse impacts will be in developing countries where populations are the most vulnerable and least able to adapt, but climate change does not feature prominently within the policies of these countries.*** This is probably due to a combination of competing priorities and a lack of knowledge and capacity to address climate risk. While sustainable development will help to reduce vulnerability over time, it is unclear whether it can occur fast enough to make a difference (even despite the uncertainties over the rate of climate change). Synergy in national policies and strategies 122. The proper integration of climate policies within national policies on social, economic and environmental issues enhances the capacity of countries to deal with climate change. Many of the policies necessary to ensure climate protection or to mitigate climate impacts could have ancillary benefits and national policies should recognise such benefits.*** The British Bangladeshi Professional Association stressed the importance of linking strategies on climate change with national sustainable development objectives. It believed climate change was more than a long-term environmental issue and had to be recognised as a short and medium-term development issue.*** Climate change has largely been ignored in NSSDs.**? Developing countries must integrate actions on climate change into their national strategies. Ministries of Finance must be involved in this process, as the costs associated with the longer-term impacts of climate change have to be considered now.**° 123. Most donors are keen to support initiatives where there is effective policy integration. DEFRA told us the UK would consider providing support for adaptation where it was a credible part of an overall poverty reduction strategy.**’ Policy integration should be a priority for developing countries not least because it might release donor funding for adaptation. Multilateral Environmental Agreements. 124. Developing countries have been asked to prepare freestanding national studies for various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). As every MEA has its own format, separate plans had to be produced for each one. The net effect was the development of plans that lacked coherence and coordination and that contained little of 330Fv 151 331] inkages between climate change and sustainable development, Beg et al, 2001 (submitted to Climate Policy in October 2001 revised December 2001) ~“Ev 139 sf *Linkages between climate change and sustainable development, Beg et al, 2001 (submitted to Climate Policy in October 2001 revised December 2001) 334 y 128 [paras 3.1-3.2] EY 71 [para 12] ‘37Ry 15 [para 4.12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32221356_0001_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
