Understanding the Quality of Climate Finance

Understanding the Quality of Climate Finance

182739922

Climate Policy Initiative
1.7.25

English

58 pp.

346 Na04

This paper presents a conceptual framework for collectively understanding the quality of climate finance among public climate finance providers, using these actors’ varied work to date as basis from which to build. This framing provides a structured approach – by elucidating three different levels for understanding climate finance quality, which could, with further development and socialization, inform the appraisal and design of high-quality climate finance projects or programs, catalyzing impact beyond one-off project interventions to influence the broader market and system levels of action. These levels are derived from an extensive review of the literature, as well as stakeholder consultations with key public climate finance providers and encapsulate how climate finance quality may be defined depending on the scope of analysis, the influence sphere and the typical time horizon for realizing outcomes. Ultimately, the goal is to advance the global conversation on the effective use of financial resources by explaining the dimensions through which climate finance quality may be understood.

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