This conference on climate policy and development, co-organized by IDDRI, was the result of a collaboration with several international partners, including the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), the UNEP Risø Research Center (Denmark), the Universities of Wageningen (the Netherlands) and Cape Town (South Africa) and the Institute for Environmental Strategies (IGES, Japan). This conference was supported by the Ile-de-France Region and the R2DS network.
The objective was to identify policies that simultaneously maximize local development benefits and global climate benefits.
On the basis of examples of national policies in several areas (rural development; natural disaster management; poverty reduction; energy security and access to energy; transport), the symposium examined the conditions for the dissemination of such initiatives. Can international policies provide levers for action to improve the contribution of international coordination tools for the effective implementation of integrated climate-development policies?