Stephanie Ockenden, OECD Development Cooperation Directorate
Climate change and development are intrinsically linked, and external development finance flows have a critical role to play in supporting this transition. Achieving an efficient and effective allocation of this finance will be critical to support our climate change goals and to ensure the most vulnerable are reached.
Improved statistics on climate-related development finance can support this, through providing information to facilitate greater co-ordination and allocation of finance. Better data also has a significant role to play given the current “climate politics”. Climate finance will be one of the critical elements contributing to a new global agreement to tackle climate change. Whilst climate-related development finance flows are much broader than the UNFCCC USD 100 billion goal, many parties draw in part on these data to meet their commitments. Robust statistics promote consistency, comparability and transparency, and this in turn will support parties in their monitoring and reporting to the convention to deliver greater accountability and help build trust.
Taking one giant step towards more robust statistics, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), in collaboration with the MDBs and other international organisations, presents for the first time an integrated picture of bilateral and multilateral external development finance flows targeting climate change objectives in 2013.
In doing so, a significant boost to transparency is achieved by making available on-line a wealth of data, including information on over 7,000 development finance activities, contributing to over USD 37 billion of climate-related development finance in 2013.
Going forward the OECD DAC is working in collaboration with other partners to further improve the quality, coverage, communication and use of these environmental development data.
We invite you to access detailed project-level information and interact with our new 2013 climate-related development finance statistics!
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