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UK International Climate Finance results 2024

This page provides the 2024 International Climate Finance (ICF) results for the UK government.

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UK International Climate Finance results 2024

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From April 2011 to March 2024, it is estimated that International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes have: 

  • directly supported over 110 million people to cope with the effects of climate change 
  • provided 82 million people with improved access to clean energy 
  • supported 32 million people with improving their resilience to climate change 
  • reduced or avoided 105 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions 
  • installed 4,500 megawatts of clean energy capacity 
  • avoided 750,000 hectares of ecosystem loss 
  • generated or protected ecosystem services with a value of £5.6 million 
  • mobilised £8.4 billion public and £7.8 billion private finance for climate change purposes in developing countries 
  • supported the sustainable management of 4.2 million hectares of land 
  • supported 137 countries, 1.8 million people and 3,700 organisations with technical assistance

We have published the version of our data processing pipeline used to produce the 2024 ICF results, under the Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.5281/zenodo.13909217.

Infographic showing cumulative total ICF results for 2024.

UK International Climate Finance is a portfolio of investments with a goal to support international poverty eradication now and in the future. It aims to help developing countries manage risk and build resilience to the impacts of climate change, take up low-carbon development at scale and manage natural resources sustainably. 

Each year the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office sets out results from these investments against a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). 

Many of these programmes have long-lived benefits and will continue to deliver further results over the years to come.

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Published 10 October 2024

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