Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Juha I. Uitto, Jyotsna Puri, Rob D. van den Berg (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.

The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations. Important topics include how policies and organisations aim to achieve impact and how this is measured, whether climate change is mainstreamed into other development programs, and whether operations are meeting the urgency of climate change challenges.

The following sections focus on evaluation of climate change projects and policies as they link to development, from the perspective of international organisations, NGO’s, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, and academia. The authors share methodologies or approaches used to better understand problems and assess interventions, strategies and policies. They also share challenges encountered, what was done to solve these and lessons learned from evaluations. Collectively, the authors illustrate the importance of evaluation in providing evidence to guide policy change to informed decision-making.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development: Introduction....Pages 1-12
Action on Climate Change: What Does It Mean and Where Does It Lead To?....Pages 13-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development....Pages 37-51
Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development....Pages 53-79
Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 Years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change....Pages 81-94
An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio....Pages 95-110
Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development....Pages 111-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Using Mixed Methods to Assess Trade-Offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation....Pages 131-152
Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions....Pages 153-170
Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDC: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan....Pages 171-186
Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America....Pages 187-212
Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits....Pages 213-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
What Do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-analysis with a Realist Approach....Pages 235-254
Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa....Pages 255-269
Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya....Pages 271-287
Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines....Pages 289-304
Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment....Pages 305-326
The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change....Pages 327-341
Back Matter....Pages 343-355

✦ Subjects

Climate Change;Sustainable Development;Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts;Environmental Management