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ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Their mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.

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Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development

This Working Paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these.
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FEATURE: If we know it works, why not do it?

Katie Harris from the Overseas Development Institute asks why such a small percentage of funding given to those in developing countries is spent on disaster preparedness, especially when the sums needed for emergency response following natural disasters have been climbing.
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Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster risk Reduction aims to continue the momentum of the prior Global Platform meetings, into a durable and sustained effort from all actors (governments, NGOs and civil society, international agencies …
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At cross-purposes: subsidies and climate compatible investment

The fifth paper in ODI’s series on defining and developing understanding of climate finance in the national or domestic context. This paper has a focus on private climate finance and in particular fossil fuel subsidies.
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The effectiveness of climate finance: a review of the Amazon Fund

This working paper is part of a series of studies of the effectiveness of dedicated climate funds. This paper reviews the Amazon Fund in Brazil.
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The effectiveness of climate finance: a review of the Adaptation Fund

One in a series of ODI working papers assessing the effectivness of multilateral climate finance, this paper reviews the Adaptation Fund.
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The effectiveness of multilateral climate funds

Accompanying a series of reviews of multilateral funds, this paper considers the context of delivering climate finance and presents a guiding framework to assess the effectiveness of international clinate funds.
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