The DAC-EPOC Joint Task Team on Climate Change and Development Co-operation is a group of experts on the issue of climate change, particularly on climate change adaptation. The OECD Development Co-operation Directorate and Environment Directorate jointly serve as the Secretariat of the Task Team, which reports to the OECD DAC-ENVIRONET and OECD Environmental Policy Committee's Working Party on Climate Investment and Development meetings (EPOC-WPCID). The overarching mission of the Task Team is to integrate climate change adaptation into development co-operation, and its work has enabled in-depth discussion on pressing issues on climate change adaptation. More specifically, the Task Team has focused on:

 

1. Policy guidance on integrating climate change adaptation into development co-operation 

This guidance was endorsed by OECD member countries and published in 2009. It constitutes a key reference for Development Co-operation and Environment Ministries and Agencies in their co-operation with developing country partners in support of adaptation to climate change.

 

• Read more about the policy guidance

 

2. Supporting policymakers to integrate climate change adaptation into development co-operation

The Task Team supports partner countries to apply the guidance into their decision-making processes, and is currently working on supplementary materials to apply it in specific contexts.

 

• Read more about our work

 

Recent events 

• Adaptation Futures Conference: Managing climate change risks amidst uncertainty - Designing development co-operation to support national and sub-national adaptation, May 2016
• Workshop: linking adaptation to Climate Change with financial protection mechanisms, 26 April 2016, Bogota, Colombia. 
  
  
• Joint DAC-EPOC Task Team meeting on Climate Change and Development Co-operation, 9-10 April 2014, Zurich, Switzerland. 
  The summary record of the meeting.

 

• Environment and development, Session on Development and Climate Change Adaptation, November 2013, Warsaw, Poland

 

For further information please contact Jan.Corfee-Morlot (jan.corfee-morlot[at]oecd.org) or Michael Mullan (michael.mullan[at]oecd.org).