Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 7 March 2017
759. Deputy Darragh O'Brien asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expenditure from the overseas development aid budget on the green climate fund from 2014 to 2016, inclusive; if any of the expenditure announced in budget 2017 will go towards the green climate fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12001/17]
View answerIn line with a commitment in the Programme for Partnership Government, and a pledge given by the Taoiseach to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to scale up climate finance, my Department made an initial contribution of €2 million to the Green Climate Fund in 2016. The Government has also committed to building up its support to the Green Climate Fund in the coming years. This contribution forms part of Ireland’s wider commitment to the Paris Climate Change Conference in November 2015 to provide least €175 million in public funding on climate action between 2016 and 2020.
In addition to the Green Climate Fund, Ireland’s public funding for climate action also includes on-going support for mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries, mainly through bilateral assistance to Ireland’s key partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa and also through funding for the Least Developed Countries Fund, both of which are supported through the Official Development Assistance budget, managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
