The Commission on Climate Change and Development is made up of 13 renown individuals from different regions and disciplines. It is chaired by the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Ms Gunilla Carlsson.
The Commission primarily concentrates on:
1) identifying incentives for and barriers to poor countries undertaking risk reduction and climate-proofing measures
2) discussing how best to combine long-term work on climate change mitigation
3) identifying guidelines for international development cooperation in the fields of adaptation and risk reduction
4) considering how to achieve policy coherence by integrating concerns for climate change into wider development efforts.
The Commission’s mandate will run for approximately 18 months and result in a final report in 2009.