New Book - The Normative Foundations of International Climate Adaptation Finance

[Romain Weikmans]

Dear colleagues,

 

I am glad to let you know that my new book has just been published by Cambridge University Press in the Elements in Earth System Governance series:

 

The Normative Foundations of International Climate Adaptation Finance

Billions of dollars are annually transferred to poor nations to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. This Element examines how the discourses on adaptation finance of many developing country negotiators, environmental groups, development charities, academics, and international bureaucrats have renewed a specific vision of aid intended to respond to international injustices and to fuel a regular transfer of resources between rich and poor countries. By reviewing manifestations of this normative vision of aid in key contemporary debates on adaptation finance, the author shows how these discourses have contributed to the significant financial mobilization of developed countries towards adaptation in the Global South. But there remains a stark contrast between the many expectations associated with these discourses and today’s adaptation finance landscape.

 

This Element is available in open access until the 22^nd of February at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7BD86C68DEE5F83E5765FCFE7469B593/9781108932073AR.pdf/the-normative-foundations-of-international-climate-adaptation-finance.pdf

 

I hope you will find it of interest! 

 

Best wishes,

Romain

 

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Dr Romain WEIKMANS
Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Adjunct Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles / Free University of Brussels
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Recent publications

Climate finance: Checking contentious counting. Nature Climate Change. (2022)

Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?. Climate Policy. (2022)

Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance. Nature Climate Change. (2021)

Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements. Climate Policy. (2021)

What counts as climate finance? Define urgently. Nature. (2020)

Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of NDCs. Climate Policy. (2020)

Twenty-five years of adaptation finance through a climate justice lens. Climatic Change. (2020)

The international climate finance accounting muddle: Is there hope on the horizon?. Climate and Development. (2019)