Dear colleagues, Jakob Skovgaard and I recently published an article in World Development on the importance of bureaucratic actors influencing climate finance allocation decisions.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1YRez,6yxD6kF7 Abstract: The financing of climate measures in developing countries – climate finance – is an increasingly important issue in global climate governance. While a growing body of literature has highlighted the importance of bureaucratic actors within governments as a factor influencing political decisions, quantitative studies on climate finance have so far only focused on extra-governmental factors. We argue that this is a serious shortcoming given that the allocation of climate finance involves ministries with different priorities. This paper addresses the gap by studying how the involvement of ministries in policy processes influences the implementation of bilateral climate finance. We find that ministry involvement matters for both the selection and allocation of climate finance. First, we discover that involvement of the ministry of development means that lower income countries are more likely to be selected as recipients of climate finance but surprisingly that does not mean recipients acquire more climate finance. Second, we discover that when the ministry of environment is involved, donor countries are more likely to provide aid to UNFCCC allies, and when it is the ministry holding the “lead” on climate finance, non-allies tend to receive less aid than allies. Lauri Peterson and Jakob Skovgaard (2019): Bureaucratic politics and the allocation of climate finance, World Development, Volume 117, May 2019, Pages 72-97, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.011 We hope our article will be of interest to you. Best, Lauri ============================ Lauri Peterson PhD Candidate Uppsala University Department of Government ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lauri_Peterson> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=-ipUeI0AAAAJ&hl=en> [uu] När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
