Definition

Whether or not the investment includes climate finance is done by labelling the projects as having climate finance. This can typically be found on project databases, project pages, and/or annual reports. Alternatively, there may be a specific climate finance database, where it is clear all the investments include climate finance without having to be explicit for each one.

What type of climate finance the investment includes, whether it is mitigation, adaptation, or cross-cutting. Similar to the question above, this can be done as a labelling exercise in the same sources. This would be automatically passed if in the database there are fields for mitigation and adaptation finance where a 0 can be inputted, if not applicable.

The overall amount of the investment that is counted as climate finance. Similar to above, this information can be found on project databases, a specific climate finance database, project pages, and/or annual reports. For data use and analysis, it is preferable to have it in spreadsheet/bulk download format for all (climate finance) investments.

The amounts broken down by mitigation and adaptation finance rather than climate finance overall. It needs to be specific to mitigation and adaptation, it cannot be crosscutting as it is not clear how much for each aspect. Same sources and formatting as above.

A rationale would be a narrative statement providing a rationale for why an investment has been counted as having climate finance.

A quantitative budget breakdown for climate finance for the investment at least one step down from the total investment finance amount. This could either be at the component, subcomponent, or activity level.