UK aid’s international climate finance commitments Approach summary paper - December 2023

The review will build on previous scrutiny of UK aid and climate change, including the 2019 ICAI review of UK aid for low-carbon development,12 the 2021 ICAI review of UK aid’s alignment with the Paris Agreement,13 the 2021 ICAI review of UK aid for halting deforestation and preventing irreversible biodiversity loss,14 the 2023 ICAI review of the Blue Planet Fund,15 and the National Audit Office r. [...] Review questions The rapid review will address the following questions: • Is the UK on track to meet its international climate finance commitments? • How well is the UK supporting the achievement of the global international climate finance goals to which it has committed? 10 International Climate Finance, statement made on 17 October 2023, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, October 2023. [...] We will also consider the impact of the ICF commitments on other parts of the UK aid programme, examining the relative trends in climate finance in relation to overall aid spending. [...] Stakeholder consultations: With a view to assessing the underlying reasons for the commitments, as well as the quality of the commitments, we will interview key government staff across the four departments responsible for the strategic direction of ICF (the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural. [...] To understand external perceptions of the adequacy and predictability of the commitments, we will interview selected bilateral and multilateral partner organisations (such as the German government, the Green Climate Fund and the World Bank), as well as selected country recipients of climate finance.