Financing for climate and biodiversity in a

development cooperation context – policy

and experiences from a Sida perspective

4 November, 2010

Maria Berlekom

Acting Director

Department for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Service

Sida

Structure

Relevance for development cooperation

Swedish policy framework on environment and

climate change in development cooperation

Global needs and commitments

Instruments and work at Sida

Challenges

Why does it matter?

Ecosystem services: essential for life, livelihoods

and growth

Climate change + loss of biodiversity/ecosystem

services undermine development opportunities

The poorest are most vulnerable and hardest hit

Adaptation and development projects

Swedish Policy framework on

Environment and Climate Change in

Development Cooperation

One of six global challenges in the Policy for Global

Development

One of three thematic priorities for development cooperation

Clear reference in most of new Swedish development

cooperation policies

Specific policy on Environment and Climate Change in

development cooperation

Policy on Environment and Climate Change in

Development Cooperation

Clear cross-cutting mandate

Climate change and ecosystem services/biodiversity

Five areas in focus: strengthening institutional capacity; natural

resources (agriculture, forests, marine resources; water

resources and water & sanitation; energy; urban development

Needs, sources and

commitments – a thorny issue

Climate change (UNCCC): Fast-start (upto 2012);

100 billion USD/year by 2020

Biodiversity (UNCBD): strategy for resource

mobilisation

Sources: public sector, private sector etc. ODA

minor part, important catalytical role.

Instruments and work at Sida

Strategy-driven: Loans and guarantees;

research; bilateral; regional; global; international

training programmes etc

Special initiatives: Climate change initiative +

environmental loans and guarantees

Primarily build on existing programmes

Safe-guards

Challenges

Focus on results vs focus on in-puts

The risk of fragmentation: initiatives, funds,

reporting requirements etc

Who sets priorities?

Country systems vs dedicated projects

What is ”new and additional”