Access to climate finance

Public climate finance funds are channeled through different institutions, mostly bilateral and multilateral financial institutions or national government aid agencies. Public and private intermediaries are key players in channeling and raising climate finance.

There is a wide range of mechanisms to access international climate finance. An overview of the global architecture of public climate financing mechanisms is available in the 2019 report of the Climate Funds Update.

Canada works closely with its delivery partners to implement the its climate finance commitment. The illustration below shows how Canadian international climate finance reaches developing countries.

More information

For more information on how to access climate finance, please visit Canada’s climate finance for developing countries.

To access multilateral funding, please refer to delivery’s partners’ guidelines and procedures for funding opportunities, including:

Main multilateral climate funds

• Green Climate Fund
• Global Environment Facility
• Climate Investment Funds

Multilateral development banks (and their Canadian facilities where existing)

• International Finance Corporation (IFC) – Canada Climate Change Program
• Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia II (CFPS II)
• Asian Development Bank
• Inter-American Development Bank
• World Bank Group – Small Island Developing States