Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what criteria they use when determining whether money provided in overseas aid can be counted as climate finance.

We account for all our International Climate Finance (ICF) using internationally agreed OECD guidelines. Programmes (or elements within them) can be counted as ICF if they address the impacts or causes of climate change, and programme teams report against the Rio Markers for adaptation, mitigation, biodiversity, and desertification as appropriate to capture this.