Overseas Aid: Climate Change

(asked on 24th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of the Government's £5.8 billion pledge for International Climate Finance committed to the period 2016-17 to 2020-21 was spent in each of those financial years; and how much of the £11.6 billion the Government has committed to International Climate Finance between 2021-22 and 2025-26 is planned to be spent in each of those financial years.


Answered by
James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 2nd March 2021

Details of UK International Climate Finance (ICF) by calendar year can be found here. Headline figures are below:

Year

Amount (million)

2016

£1,025

2017

£903

2018

£1,169

2019

£1,183

The UK Government remains committed to doubling our ICF to £11.6 billion over the next five years. Annual allocations have not been set for the five year period.

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