Coordination Challenges in Climate Finance

The document examines the complexities of the global climate finance landscape, noting that while funding is increasing toward the USD 100 billion annual pledge for developing countries, the variety of fund sources and implementation channels creates significant coordination challenges. These issues manifest globally as a lack of clear division of labour among multilateral funds and nationally through the interaction between domestic government actors and international funders.

• Developed countries have committed to an annual provision of USD 100 billion to developing nations for climate-friendly development and climate change mitigation, though current public finance levels remain below this target despite a steady increase.
• The global climate finance landscape is characterized by diverse funding sources, priorities, and implementation channels, which leads to potential coordination challenges and overlapping actions at both national and global scales.
• Specific coordination issues include the difficulty of establishing a division of labour among multilateral climate funds globally, and the management of coordination arenas involving international funders and domestic government actors at the national level.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2018). Coordination Challenges in Climate Finance. https://www.sei.org/publications/coordination-challenges-climate-finance/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Coordination Challenges in Climate Finance. 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/coordination-challenges-climate-finance/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2018coordination, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Coordination Challenges in Climate Finance}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/coordination-challenges-climate-finance/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }