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UK International Climate Finance results 2023

This page provides the 2023 International Climate Finance (ICF) results for the UK including information on indicator methodologies.

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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From April 2011 to March 2023, it is estimated that International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes have:

  • directly supported over 100 million people to cope with the effects of climate change

  • provided 69 million people with improved access to clean energy

  • supported 32 million people with improving their resilience to climate change

  • reduced or avoided 86 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions

  • installed 3,600 megawatts of clean energy capacity

  • avoided 413,000 hectares of ecosystem loss

  • generated or protected ecosystem services with a value of £5.3 million

  • mobilised £6.9 billion public and £6.8 billion private finance for climate change purposes in developing countries

  • supported the sustainable management of 2.7 million hectares of land

  • supported 125 countries, 414,000 people and 1,450 organisations with technical assistance

Infographic showing cumulative total ICF results for 2023.

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

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).

Updates to this page

Published 28 September 2023
Last updated 6 October 2023 + show all updates
  1. Corrections made to the data in Table 16 of the ICF results 2023 and revisions log added to the page.

  2. First published.

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