Climate finance refers to dedicating public and/or private financial resources to support climate change mitigation (which aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions), or adaptation (which helps build resiliency in the face of climate change). Climate finance can come from public sources, such as government or national and multilateral development banks, or from a growing array of private institutional investors and public-private institutions. Internationally, climate finance is one way to recognize that less-developed countries are often more vulnerable to climate change for which they are relatively less responsible and yet have fewer resources to address. Climate finance also refers to funding mechanisms to support the energy transition to net-zero emissions, such as clean technology development and related infrastructure. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for developed country governments to commit to increasing climate finance commitments (currently USD $100 billion/year) at specified intervals, such as this year. Therefore, negotiating a “New Collective Quantified Goal” on Climate Finance is a major focus of the 2024 UN climate conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan.
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