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How to sustain rapid economic and urban growth with minimised detriment to environment is a key challenge for sustainable development and climate change mitigation in developing countries, which face constraints of technical and financial resources scarcity as well as dearth of infrastructure governance capacity.
Climate change mitigation in developing countries is increasingly expected to generate co-benefits that help meet sustainable development goals.
"In Copenhagen, we also need to address the need for financing in the longer term to support adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
Andrew Sudmant, research fellow, University of Leeds, London, UK, @andrewsudmant Andrew's research explores the economic case for investing in climate change mitigation in developing world cities and energy grids.
Rich countries with high emissions will need to do most of the work but to achieve the deep global cuts needed, they will also need to fund mitigation in developing countries.
Carbon forestry has become a cornerstone of attempted climate change mitigation in developing countries.
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Moreover, existing research has largely focused on case studies of climate change mitigation in developed economies.
Another possible area for cuts would be the £392m that DECC currently contributes to the International Climate Fund, which supports climate adaptation and mitigation efforts in developing countries.
Some of its provisions, notably on mechanisms for funding mitigation efforts in developing countries, can take effect outside the UN process.
In fact, mitigation efforts in developing countries to date have been closely tied to transfers from developed countries, as we shall see later.
Advanced country governments have also committed to raising $100 billion a year for climate adaptation and mitigation projects in developing countries, but it is far from clear where this money might come from.
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