공적개발원조에 의한 기후변화 적응 지원의 당위성과 방향에 관한 연구

A Study on the Rationales and the Directions of Official Development Assistance to Support Developing Countries for Climate Change Adaptation

The poor are more severly damaged by climate change because their economies are more dependent on climate-sensitive industries, they live in marginal area, and don t have enough resources. The vulnerability of the poor to climate change as well as climate variability threatens to undo the efforts of achieving Millenium Development Goals. This paper examines why official development assistance(ODA) should support developing countries efforts of responding to climate change. The link between poverty and the vulnerability to climate change indicates that ODA can target to achieve both poverty reduction and adaptation to climate change by integrating or mainstreaming adaptation into development cooperation. The evidences of environmental injustice suggest that the increased inequity between rich and poor countries can destabilize the international society and developed countries responsible for creating this unprecedented problem will face the requests to take this burden. International efforts to address this issue can be found in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change setting several commitments for the international cooperation for climate change and political outcomes from previous sessions of the Conference of the Parties.