As the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off in Glasgow at the end of last month, the world’s biggest aid donors — under the banner of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee — pledged to align all their development aid with the Paris climate agreement.
“This is the next chapter in what best practice for development cooperation looks like,” DAC Chair Susanna Moorehead told Devex. In aligning with the agreement, the committee members join a handful of bilateral and multilateral donors that have already made this commitment.
But what that means in practice isn’t always clear. Here’s a look at how to understand the process: