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Overseas Development Assistance and Climate Resilience: A Case Study of Tonga

In: Shaping the Future of Small Islands

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  • Partha Gangopadhyay

    (Western Sydney University)

  • Khushbu Rai

    (The University of the South Pacific)

Abstract

This chapter examines the role of overseas development assistance (ODA), adaptation strategies and mitigation of carbon footprints through energy security in creating climate resilience in small island developing states like Tonga. By creating a dataset for Tonga, vulnerability indices are developed for the period 1976–2015. This is followed by an analysis of long-run relationship between vulnerability index and certain variables such as development assistance, oil prices and global temperature. The empirical results reveal three things. First, the ODA does not impact upon climate resilience in Tonga. Second, the policy pressure on the government of Tonga for ensuring energy security, captured from the oil price dynamics, impacts adversely on the climate resilience of Tonga. Third, the fear of consequences of climate change, captured by the rising global temperature, seems to have motived the government of Tonga to build climate resilience.

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  • Partha Gangopadhyay & Khushbu Rai, 2021. "Overseas Development Assistance and Climate Resilience: A Case Study of Tonga," Springer Books, in: John Laing Roberts & Shyam Nath & Satya Paul & Yeti Nisha Madhoo (ed.), Shaping the Future of Small Islands, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 283-300, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-4883-3_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_16
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