Climate Change Archives

How transparent are climate funds?

By Ryan Anderton and Alex Tilley | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog

Multilateral climate funds play a crucial role in channelling significant portions of climate finance and will be key in efforts to meet the new $300 billion goal. But what do we know about how this climate finance is deployed, who receives it and the impact it’s having? To gain an insight into the transparency of these funds we have investigated the four largest multilateral climate funds: the Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Climate Investment Funds, and Adaptation Fund.

How transparent is DFI climate finance?

By Ryan Anderton | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are increasingly pivotal in the climate finance landscape. As they channel more resources to climate finance, and prepare for a new global goal for low- and middle-income countries, Ryan Anderton investigates what exactly we know about current DFI climate investments. In short, he finds a messy picture. Enhanced transparency is crucial if we want to ensure that climate finance is valid, accountable and, most importantly, effective.

Measuring the gap – international climate finance and the priorities of climate vulnerable countries – a proof of concept

By Alex Tilley | Aug 4, 2022 | Blog

Publish What You Fund has been looking into international climate finance and how this can be tracked at the national level. Alex Tilley presents research using aid transparency data to see how finance provided so far measures up against climate change adaptation needs identified by Kenya. This is a preview of a larger research project we are currently fundraising for.

The Adaptation Fund publishes to IATI Registry

By Guest | Apr 10, 2014 | Blog

Guest post by Mamadou Honadia, Chair of the Adaptation Fund Board The Adaptation Fund has published its project data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry today. In making its data public and searchable on IATI’s platform, the Fund joins 234 other organizations, including the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Gates Foundation, that […]

Auditors say EU climate finance coordination ‘inadequate’

By Katie Welford | Dec 20, 2013 | News

Earlier this week, the European Court of Auditors released its findings of an audit of European financial support to help developing countries cope with climate impacts. The report reveals the overall EU coordination with member states, who provide the large majority of European climate finance, is inadequate. Auditors highlight how the lack of a robust monitoring, reporting and […]

Money is supposed to buy us out of the climate crisis

By Guest | Nov 22, 2013 | Blog

Guest post by Lisa Ann Elges, Transparency International Climate finance is packaged as a remedy to help cure its symptoms and causes. It comes in envelopes of different sizes, all donning the ‘transparency’ label – this is public money for a public cause, after all. But the fine print tells us more. At Transparency International […]