Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 January 2021
394. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of funding his Department is providing to climate adaptation and mitigation activities in some of the least developed countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1411/21]
View answerIn 2019 the Department of Foreign Affairs disbursed €71,327,000 for climate adaptation and climate mitigation activities from the Department's budget for Official Development Assistance. This was a significant increase on the €64,754,000 finance disbursed by the Department in 2018, demonstrating a continued positive trend towards Government's commitment to double the percentage of Official Development Assistance that is climate finance by 2030.
All of my Department's climate finance expenditure is in grant form, and nearly all of it is for adaptation support to Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in line with our mandate to build the resilience of the furthest behind first in the face of the immediate challenges they face due to the climate crisis.
In addition to the contribution by my Department outlined above, the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, the Department of Finance and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine also provide climate finance to developing countries.
