Climate finance 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.

DFI Transparency Index 2025: updated methodology and timeline

By Paul James | Aug 15, 2024 | Blog, News

Work on the second DFI Transparency Index is underway, in preparation for launch in July 2025. The Index ranks the transparency of the world’s leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and encourages improvement. We recently completed a methodology review, involving stakeholder consultation, to improve the rigour of the DFI Transparency Index, while maintaining comparability between the 2023 and 2025 editions. Here we set out the changes that have been made to the methodology, including the addition of new climate finance indicators.

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.