This project breaks disciplinary silos by bringing those who work in climate finance and policy together with development scholars and practitioners to share lessons, understanding, and research with an overall goal of making a contribution to the climate change field so that those at the community level benefit from the multitude of programmes designed for climate impacts. For some 70 years, International Development specialists have been developing programs and delivering funds to those who most need assistance. There is a wealth of knowledge to be uncovered by examining the international development industry for those who are now tasked with delivering climate finance. The academic, policy, and practitioner communities have spent decades researching, examining, and analyzing both development policies and finance independent of each. This volume will seek to bring that research together.

Corrine Cash is Assistant Professor in Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, Canada.

Larry Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada. 

Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Climate Finance: Lessons from International Development.- Chapter 2: Beyond COP 26: Lessons from development finance for improved climate finance.- Chapter 3: International Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness.- Chapter 4: Climate Finance and Principles for Effective Development Cooperation.- Chapter 5: What can we learn about the country ownership of international climate finance by employing a relational conception of scale?.- Chapter 6: Toward Accountability in Climate Finance: Lessons from Nepal and Indonesia.- Chapter 7: Delivering Adaptation through the Market? The Trouble with Using Carbon Offsets to Finance Climate Adaptation in the Global South.- Chapter 8: Climate Finance and Neo-Colonialism: exposing hidden dynamics.- Chapter 9: Climate finance and the peace dividend, articulating the co-benefits argument.- Chapter 10: Toward Just and Effective Climate Action.