Aid For Trade and Green Growth: State Of Play

The paper provides details on the OECD green growth strategy and focuses on what lessons the aid-for-trade community can learn from this work. The paper reviews the current literature on aid for trade and green growth as well as broader work on green growth and developing countries and the role of development co-operation. It provides an overview of the aid-for-trade flows that support environmental objectives with examples of particular projects. The paper highlights that environmental objectives have long been articulated in aid programmes and that although Official Development Assistance (ODA) is a relatively minor contributor to green growth, its role can be catalytic.