Description

This dataset contains a breakdown of developed countries individual public contributions in public climate finance towards the $100 billion commitment between 2013-2018. This dataset was used in WRI’s technical note ‘A Breakdown of Developed Countries’ Public Climate Finance Contributions Towards the $100 Billion Goal’.

The dataset shows how much public climate finance each country has provided, through which channels (bilateral, climate-specific inflows to multilateral institutions and climate-specific outflows from MDBs attributed back to developed countries), and to which thematic areas (mitigation, adaptation, crosscutting, and other) over the years 2013–18. It also compares country climate finance as a percent of gross national income, per capita, and compared against a variety of climate finance effort-sharing approaches.

The climate finance contributors for this dataset was compiled from four key data sources: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Biennial Reports by developed countries, the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance Biennial Assessments of 2016 & 2018, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee’s Creditor Reporting System data on multilateral climate finance outflows, and country shareholdings in multilateral development banks. Data on grant shares of countries’ climate finance comes from Oxfam. Data for the analysis of relative climate finance efforts comes from the World Bank and effort sharing approaches developed by Oxfam, Overseas Development Institute, World Resources Institute and ETH Zurich.