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Development Aid: Climate Change

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 17 September 2025UIN 71017

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what criteria his Department uses when selecting recipients for international climate finance.

Answered by Chris Elmore

International Climate Finance is spent in countries according to their vulnerability to climate change, ability to fund their own adaptation, and high emissions or high future emissions pathways where climate mitigation, poverty reduction, and development co-benefits potential are greatest.

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