Policy Context

In 2022, Ireland published its International Climate Finance Roadmap. Ireland’s principles within climate include:

• Leave no one behind and contribute to sustainable development for the most climate vulnerable people, communities, and countries;
• Locally-led climate action;
• Climate justice and just transition;
• Gender-sensitive climate action; and
• Transparency and good governance.

Beyond these guiding principles, Ireland also has several key priorities:

• Preference for grant-based climate finance, especially for LDCs, SIDS and fragile states;
• Engagement with multilateral partners, including the EU, UN, MDBs and multilateral funds;
• Climate-proofing Ireland’s ;abbrODA, and focusing on better integrating climate action and resilience across all channels of development finance; and
• Exploring opportunities to engage the private sector in climate action, with a focus on value addition of the private sector in the areas of climate resilience and adaptation.

The roadmap does not provide a specific target for adaptation, and instead aims for a ‘proportion of funding for adaptation’.

ODA Spending

How much ODA does Ireland allocate to climate projects?

How is Ireland's climate-related ODA changing?