this could help to answer the vexed question of the potential for competition between climate and development finance which continues to cause a political divide between developed and developing countries the development cooperation community could also consider further research in a number of areas including country level studies of financial flows to identify ways of maximising the effectiveness of finance for climate development and disaster risk reduction in addition country level studies of the measures being taken to roll out the agendas in a coherent way at the national level would provide valuable insights and learning to share with development cooperation providers and partner governments