This document discusses challenges and approaches to monitoring and reporting climate finance received. It notes that gathering information requires collecting data from multiple government ministries and agencies, as well as international partners and other stakeholders. There is diversity in how finance from loans, grants, and other instruments is tracked, and different countries have varying institutional arrangements. Key challenges include a lack of definitions and capacity, dispersed data across institutions, and difficulty obtaining information from non-state actors. To address these, the document recommends developing common concepts, enhancing domestic measurement and reporting systems, improving tools and understanding, and harmonizing reporting methods.

1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Transparency of finance received
– lessons from experience to
date
Co-facilitators: Andrés Mogro, Jens Fugl
CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
14 September 2016

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Reporting on climate finance (CF)
received – approaches taken
 Gathering information across several government
ministries and agencies, including use of surveys
 Requesting information from international co-operation
partners, and other stakeholders
 Different types of instruments covered (e.g. loans,
concessional loans, grants, results-based payments)
 Diversity of institutional arrangements: in some cases data
gathered for first time, in others system to centralise and
co-ordinate efforts
 Unclear how to approach gathering data from CF received
outside the central government

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
Challenges in monitoring and
reporting climate finance received
 Different approaches needed (also for CF
provided/mobilised) based on aim of tracking
 Lack of institutional capacity (personnel, systems) for CF
tracking
 No national or international definition of climate finance
 Collating information dispersed amongst multiple
institutions inside and outside government
 Difficulty in getting data from non-state actors
 Developing an aggregated estimate, on a comparable
basis, to inform the global stocktake

4. 4 Climate Change Expert Group
Addressing challenges
 Develop common understanding of emerging concepts
 Enhancing domestic MRV system to include reporting on
climate finance received from all sources and all actors
 Need tools to improve understanding of what is reported
 Make methodological choices: commitments vs disbursement,
received at national vs sub-national levels etc…
 Results-based finance could help, but can be more complex
e.g. for adaptation
 Documenting/archiving support received in a centralised
database, reporting at disaggregated levels
 Harmonise tools used to report information
 Improve dialogue among all relevant stakeholders