“Scale and access to the Green climate Fund: Big challenges for small island developing States”

IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102943
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Small island developing States (SIDS) are among the first and the most severely impacted by climate change and thus have been designated as a priority for adaptation finance. But despite their urgent need and prima facie case for climate justice, SIDS have been proportionally less successful than other vulnerable country groups in accessing climate funding via the Green Climate Fund (GCF). This research extends existing studies that seek to understand the SIDS-specific challenges to accessing international public climate finance by developing a new explanation based on data collected via a multi-methods research design which draws on interviews with SIDS negotiators and officials, surveys, and roundtables, as well as content analysis of GCF and UNFCCC documents. Drawing on ideas about the social construction of scale and the emerging literature on the financialization of international development funding, we argue that SIDS’ limited access to climate funding from the GCF is the consequence of assumptions in development models of the benefits of largeness, with largeness equated with value for money. The perceived advantages of large-scale programs compound the injustice of climate change for SIDS, whose communities have contributed little to the problem yet struggle to gain access to meaningful levels of assistance. Improving access to climate finance for SIDS will require changes to the systems of access and this cannot happen unless ideas about the costs and benefits of different scales are disrupted.
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"绿色气候基金的规模和获取:小岛屿发展中国家面临的巨大挑战"
小岛屿发展中国家(SIDS)是最早受到气候变化影响的国家之一,也是受影响最严重的国家之一,因此被指定为适应资金的优先对象。但是,尽管小岛屿发展中国家有迫切的需求,而且气候正义的初步证据确凿,但在通过绿色气候基金(GCF)获得气候资金方面,小岛屿发展中国家的成功比例却低于其他弱势国家群体。这项研究扩展了现有的研究,试图了解小岛屿发展中国家在获得国际公共气候资金方面所面临的具体挑战,并通过多种方法的研究设计收集数据,利用对小岛屿发展中国家谈判者和官员的访谈、调查和圆桌会议,以及对绿色气候基金和《联合国气候变化框架公约》文件的内容分析,做出新的解释。借鉴关于规模的社会建构的观点和关于国际发展资金金融化的新兴文献,我们认为,小岛屿发展中国家从全球合作框架获得气候资金的机会有限,这是发展模式中关于规模效益的假设的结果,规模等同于资金价值。人们所认为的大规模项目的优势加剧了气候变化对小岛屿发展中国家的不公,这些国家的社区对气候变化问题的影响微乎其微,但却难以获得有意义的援助。要改善小岛屿发展中国家获得气候资金的机会,就必须改变获得资金的制度,除非打破关于不同规模的成本和效益的观念,否则就不可能实现这一点。
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Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Change 环境科学-环境科学
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18.20
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2.20%
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146
审稿时长
12 months
期刊介绍: Global Environmental Change is a prestigious international journal that publishes articles of high quality, both theoretically and empirically rigorous. The journal aims to contribute to the understanding of global environmental change from the perspectives of human and policy dimensions. Specifically, it considers global environmental change as the result of processes occurring at the local level, but with wide-ranging impacts on various spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales. In terms of content, the journal seeks articles with a strong social science component. This includes research that examines the societal drivers and consequences of environmental change, as well as social and policy processes that aim to address these challenges. While the journal covers a broad range of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources, it also welcomes contributions that investigate the drivers, consequences, and management of other areas affected by environmental change. Overall, Global Environmental Change encourages research that deepens our understanding of the complex interactions between human activities and the environment, with the goal of informing policy and decision-making.
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