Integrating Climate Change into Development Cooperation - Korea’s Experience Jione JUNG Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development Cooperation (jjung@kiep.go.kr) Jihei SONG Senior Researcher, Center for International Development Cooperation (jhsong@kiep.go.kr) I. Climate Integration in Devel- opment Cooperation Climate change is an imminent challenge to global development. In the past decades, the global community has experienced extreme cli- mate disaster destroying livelihoods in develop- ing countries. The changing climate is also threatening many developing economies by im- pacting their source of income, for instance in the areas of agriculture, tourism, or manufactur- ing. More importantly, climate change is a threat that can reverse the efforts made in development cooperation. Consequently, the international community is taking active measures to inte- grate climate change in its development activi- ties. Korea has reached milestones in development cooperation over the past two decades. At the same time, it has sought for various measures to better incorporate climate consideration in its cooperation activities. However, a number of challenges remain and further action is required in improving the system and practices to better integrate climate change into Korea’s develop- ment cooperation. We aim at providing an overview of Korea’s progress in integrating climate change into its development cooperation to share the experi- ences and to highlight some achievements. In doing so, we first review how other developed countries have promoted climate change inte- gration. Through comparison with Germany, the United States, and Switzerland, we summarized several achievements made by Korea in the area of development cooperation. In addition, we identified areas for further improvement to bet- ter integrate climate change into development cooperation, as well as projections for the next phase of Korea’s development cooperation to begin in 2021. II. Selected Donors’ Experience Since the Rio Summit in 1992, major develop- ment partners have significantly enhanced their climate-related actions. In terms of quantity, the amount of climate-related support provided by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members ranged from 11.2 billion to August 3, 2020 Vol. 10, No. 21 ISSN 2233-9140