The Climate Finance Files

The Climate Finance Files are a collection of data and tools on international public climate finance.

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Tools and Data


There are different ways to access and explore the data. We will be adding additional tools and data in the coming weeks.


Explore the data in ONE Data Commons

View data for climate finance commitments:

View data for disbursements

View data for climate mitigation and adaptation

View data for different financial instruments

  • What financial instruments are used to disburse climate finance? - view line chart
  • How much does each country receive in ODA loans vs ODA grants - view scatter plot

See even more details...

  • How much cross-cutting climate finance does France provide to Nigeria? - view line chart
  • How much climate finance targeting mitigation is financed through ODA loans vs ODA grants? - view scatter plot

Mix climate finance data with other datasets

  • How does climate finance received compare to health spending from external sources in African countries? - view scatter plot
  • How much does Nigeria receive in climate finance compared to how much it pays for its public external debt? - view line chart

Python package

Get, rebuild, remix, and create using our tools and methodologies - all with only a few lines of code.

Coming soon, we will release the climate-data python package. You can get a preview as we finish development here.


Data download

You can download specific portions of the data, using our data download tool.

Check back shortly for links to CSVs and other formats to get the full data.




What are The Climate Finance Files?


The Climate Finance Files are a collection of data and tools on international public climate finance.

We think is the best (or more accurately, least worst) publicly available data on international public climate finance. Our data isn't perfect, because the data coming from providers is flawed. But we've done our best to apply a standardised and transparent methodology so that the data is comparable across providers and minimises over-counting. To learn more about our methodological choices, read this.

The Climate Finance Files look specifically at international public financial support for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

As part of this work, we are releasing tools to more easily extract, clean, and work with the data reported to UNFCCC and the OECD, without relying on the many individual spreadsheets and databases where it is currently stored.

We are also making clean versions of the data available for others to analyse. This should meaningfully lower the barriers to access that many organisations face when seeking to conduct research or advocacy on these topics.



Why are we releasing new climate finance data?


Climate finance data is notoriously difficult to access and understand. The different reporting systems, methodologies, sources, and types of finance can make it hard to provide straightforward answers to key questions.

We started this work to quantify annual climate finance contributions by specific countries. But asking a question as simple as "How much does France spend on mitigation and adaptation in developing countries?" raised a myriad of questions: According to which source? Commitments or disbursements? Grants or loans? ODA or other official flows? Bilaterally or multilaterally... and so on.

Finding answers to these questions isn't easy. Different organisations have different motivations for how they report and present this data. And analysing climate finance in a robust way requires going back to messy and complex raw data.

We realise that many organisations have a strong track record of analysing climate finance data. We have learnt a lot from that work.

But we think that accessing clean, comparable data on climate finance should be much easier than it is now.



Sources


The Climate Finance Files build upon and use data from various sources: