By J. Timmons, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, and Robert J. Hicks

Foreign assistance supports a great many objectives. Focusing on any single element of the aid program would produce a different sense of the priority of any particular objective. Climate change and environmental concerns are obviously not restricting. Global environmental challenges, such as greenhouse gas reductions or access to potable water in developing countries, require the efforts of the entire international community. The debate over climate change and foreign aid has largely focused on environment policy and initiatives.

Since the Reo earth Summit in 1992, scholars and policy analysts have produced a number of books and articles on the topic of environmental aid to developing countries. The lack of comprehensive data on aid projects from both bilateral and multi lateral donors, however leaves these analysis incomplete. Bilateral aid is less effective than multilateral aid because delegation to an independent agent enables donors to achieve scale and economics.

The report reviewed several graphs illustrating the trends of aids from the year 1980 to 1999. Dirty aid in multilateral donor was high than of bilateral donors but latter on it significantly decreased. Aid allocation is relatively neglected and funding does not appear to the places where it is most needed. Finally, since great proportions of deaths and illness in the developing world are also related to unsafe drinking water and contaminated waterways. Comparing the needs made at Rio in 1992 for each environmental sub-sector with actual funding received in the 1990�s shows that there is a huge gap between the donors and the target.

 The climate change has been a subject of concern where globalization is taking place, policies and reforms should be made in favor of the issues. More research and findings are needed to hit the challenge in future. The policy makers, stakeholders, donor agencies, advocacy groups and beneficiaries should be able to inspire the new generation on aid effectiveness and environmental protection by keeping the social and economical goals in mind.