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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![institution-building activity to ensure that the machinery of governments in developing countries can deliver coherent and integrated policies. We do not underestimate the challenge this presents; there are many examples of incoherent policies in developed countries. DFID should sponsor some research to determine the need for capacity and institution building in developing countries. Saleemul Huq, IIED, stressed the importance of climate models in helping countries prepare plans for mitigation and adaptation.” DFID and DEFRA worked with the Hadley Centre on a portable computer model that can be run on a personal computer.**° This is intended for use in developing countries to help develop understanding and inform planning using a model that better reflects local circumstances.*”” Energy and transport policies 128. Subsidies that distort water, energy and transport markets need to be reformed. Many are simply inefficient, some create perverse incentives and others are biassed against the poor and could be better targeted. Energy policy is crucial; developed and developing countries will have to facilitate a transition from mainly fossil fuel based energy production to low carbon and renewable alternatives. They will have to help industry to use initiatives like emissions trading and CDM. Long-term investments in clean technologies will require clear and stable policy regimes in many countries.“* DFID should press multilateral agencies to consider energy sources and efficiency and where appropriate and possible, donors should foster the use of renewable sources of energy. If a project uses fossil fuels or other sources of energy likely to contribute to greenhouse gases, donors should require they are used as efficiently as possible. 129. Transport and transport infrastructure play a vital part in economic development and sustainable growth. The transport needs of developing countries are immense and developing countries often lack the resources needed to build efficient and modern transport systems. Until recently the transport sector deficit in Zambia absorbed twelve per cent of the government’s totalrevenues. Effective transport systems are essential for access to domestic, regional and international markets and for the creation of jobs. Clearly, greater transport capacity is needed if developing countries, particularly those in Africa, are going to meet the MDGs and wherever possible investment in transport should be focused around sustainable transport policies. The developing world already suffers from both poor mobility and high levels of transport-related pollution.°” DFID and other donors should encourage developing countries to develop sustainable transport polices. This makes sense on economic, social and health grounds as well as from an environmental and climate perspective. Stimulating action 130. Developing countries must develop their own objectives to tackle their own specific problems. A country’s ability to build a sustainable future will be affected by issues of governance.’ A lack of resources and capacity hampers the ability to identify and implement appropriate responses to climate change. Corruption, inefficient public services and weak enforcement mechanisms play a major part in the misuse of natural resources and could undermine efforts to reduce climate risk. *45Ey 71 [para 8] Ey 5 [para 26], Ev 36 and Q21 34709.166 OEY 146 [para 2.6] “Ey 147 [para 2.10] 350 60](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32221356_0001_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
