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In their paper on climate finance, Roberts et al stated that the “US$100 billion per...
Conclusion
In their paper on climate finance, Roberts et al stated that the “US$100 billion per year climate finance promise had deep flaws, making it impossible to now assess whether it has been met.”113 Although the pledge of US$100 billion per year stated that funding would be derived from bilateral, multilateral and alternative sources which could be public or private, it failed to mention clearly what should be counted as climate finance within those categories.114 As a result, high-income countries have been able to decide themselves what they report as climate finance, making comparison and analysis challenging.115
Government Response Summary
The government partially agrees with the assessment of flaws, and outlines actions taken, including publishing a donor commitments list, supporting a Delivery Plan for the $100bn goal, and committing to robust reporting via its Development Tracker and the new Enhanced Transparency Framework.
Government Response
Accepted
Government Response
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HM Government
Accepted
Partially agree The UK recognises that developing countries need transparency and predictability about what our own and other donors’ commitments mean for the $100bn goal and what aggregate levels of climate finance will be delivered in the coming years. That is why the UK published a list of climate finance donors’ commitments in advance of COP26 and why the COP President asked Ministers from Germany and Canada to produce a Delivery Plan for how, together, developed countries will deliver the $100bn commitment. This was published on 25 October. At COP26 it was agreed that the UNFCCC’s Standing Committee on Finance would also report in 2022 on progress towards the $100bn, allowing for further clarity and transparency on climate finance flows. The UK is committed to a robust approach for reporting its own climate finance and will continue to encourage other donors to do so within their pledges made on future climate finance. We will support initiatives led by international organisations such as the OECD and UNFCCC in better defining climate finance. For example, the UK played a leading role in securing commitments on transparency as part of the OECD-DAC declaration in October 2021 on a new approach to align development co-operation with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This declaration states that by the end of 2022 DAC members will be more transparent in how we track our development and climate finance, review statistical reporting, enhance compatibility of data, harmonise CRS reporting, and develop a method for CRS to measure donor efforts on sustainable energy transition. The UK includes country level information, where this is available, in its UNFCCC reporting, and in its ODA data provided to the OECD. The UK government’s Development Tracker website now has an ICF tag which will identify programmes containing climate finance, provide country level information if available, as well as more detailed programme documentation. The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), finalised at COP26, is a reporting framework through which Parties to the Paris Agreement will share data on financial, technology and capacity-building support, with first transparency reports due by 31 December 2024 at the latest.
Source
Committee
International Development Committee
Addressee Bodies
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Timeline
Recommendation age
4.8 yrs
Report published
26 Oct 2021