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Side event of the Standing Committee on Finance: Launch of flagship reports for COP27

At COP 27, the SCF held a side event on 11 November 2022 and presented highlights of its latest reports including the 5^th Biennial Assessment and overview of climate finance flows, progress report on mobilizing USD 100 Billion per year, definitions of climate finance and Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement.

Please click here to see the programme.

Please click here to download the slides presented during the event.

Adaptation Fund : Submissions on possible future institutional linkages and relations with other institutions under the Convention

At its ninth meeting, the Standing Committee on Finance agreed to invite submissions from SCF members, observers and thematic bodies under the Convention by 8 May on the following issues:

Possible future relations between the Adaptation Fund and with other institutions under the Convention;

Possible future institutional linkages between the Adaptation Fund and other institutions under the Convention, taking into account any legal and technical implications identified.

For more information, including specific questions, please click here (90 kB) .

Received submissions on possible future institutional linkages and relations between the Adaptation Fund and other institutions under the Convention
Information received	Submitted by	Date
Submission - Oxford Climate Policy (118 kB)	Oxford Climate Policy	17/4/2015
Submission – SCF Member (257 kB)	Stephan Kellenberger	7/5/2015
Submission – CIAT/CCAFS (325 kB)	Dhanush Dinesh	7/5/2015
Submission – SCF Member (25 kB)	Inka Gnittke	8/5/2015
Submission – Observer of the South Centre to the SCF (239 kB)	Bernarditas Muller	8/5/2015
Submission – SCF Member (100 kB)	Richard Sherman	11/5/2015
Submission – SCF Member (172 kB)	Edith Kateme Kassajja	11/5/2015
Submission – Germanwatch (58 kB)	David Eckstein	13/5/2015

Biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows of the Standing Committee on Finance

At COP 17, Parties mandated the SCF to prepare a biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows. The SCF invited inputs from interested stakeholders to support its work on the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows in general, as well as on the objective, scope and proposed outline of the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows in particular. More information on the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows can be found here.

Submissions received on the call for evidence: information and data for the preparation of the fifth Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows
Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	Indonesia	01/10/2022
Submission	Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) Facility	05/08/2022
Submission	International Fund for Agricultural Development	20/07/2022

Submissions received on the call for evidence: information and data for the preparation of the fourth (2020) Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows
Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	2 Degrees Investing Initiative	23/12/2020
Submission	The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)	30/11/2020
Submission	Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	6/11/2020
Submission	Economic Community of West African States	30/11/2020
Submission	Government of Ecuador	30/11/2020
Submission	Heinrich Böll Stiftung Washington, DC (hbs) supported by the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)	30/10/2020
Submission	National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism	30/10/2020
Submission	OXFAM	30/11/2020
Submission	Ian Mitchell, Atousa Tahmasebi, Rachel Calleja, Euan Ritchie	30/11/2020
Submission: LoCAL Facility of the UNCFD Submission: LoCAL Facility of the UNCFD	Local Climate Adaptive Living facility of the UN Capital Development Fund	30/10/2020 4/03/2020
Additional submission Submission	Mercy Corps	1/07/2020 28/02/2020
Raising the Game on Paris Alignment	Germanwatch, New Climate Institute and World Resources Institute	02/04/2020
Submission Mexico	Mexico	19/03/2020
25 Years of Adaptation Finance The international Climate Finance Accounting Muddle Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition NDCs	Romain Weikmans	13/03/2020
Submission: Perspective Climate Group GmbH	Perspective Climate Group GmbH	12/03/2020
Submission E3G	E3G	7/03/2020
Submission	Disclosure Insight Action	2/03/2020
Relevant links to SEB actions within Asset Management: Submission: SEB 1 Submission: SEB 2 Submission: SEB 3 SEB public newsletter with compiled data and forecasts: Submission: SEB 4 Submission: SEB 5 Submission: SEB 6 Submission: SEB 7 SEB:s portal for Green Bonds: Submission: SEB 8	Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB)	2/03/2020
Submission: SEI	Stockholm Environment Institute	2/03/2020
Submission: Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira-Colombia	Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira-Colombia	29/02/2020
Submission
2018 Climate Activity Report 2017 Climate Activity Report Sustainable Development Analysis	Agence Française de Développement (AFD)	28/02/2020
Submission: IDFC Aligning with the Paris Agreement - Executive Summary Framework for Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Why, What and How for Financial Institutions? Implementing Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Recommendations for the Members of IDFC Aligning with the Paris Agreement - Position Paper 2018 IDFC Green Finance Mapping Report 2019 Green Finance Mapping Report - Executive Summary 2019 Green Finance Report - Full Report IDFC's Contribution to the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 Lessons Learned - Adaptation - MDB IDFC - Full Report	International Development Finance Club (IDFC)	28/02/2020
Submission: Turkey	Turkey	28/02/2020
Submission: OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	28/02/2020
Submission WRI	World Resources Institute	28/02/2020
Submission Oil Change International	Oil Change International	28/02/2020
Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments: the manufacturing industries in Norway	OECD (in close cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment)	28/02/2020
Submission UfM Secretariat	UfM Secretariat	28/02/2020
Calling for business unusual: reforming climate finance How climate finance can help repurpose hydropower Climate finance for hydropower	International Institute for Environment and Development	26/02/2020
Submission CREWS	Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems	25/02/2020

Submissions received on the call for evidence: information and data for the preparation of the 2018 biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows
Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission E3G	E3G	15/05/2018
Submission OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	15/05/2018
Submission Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat	Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat	15/05/2018
Submission Climate Action in Financial Institutions Initiative Secretariat	Secretariat of the Climate Action in Financial Institutions Initiative	15/05/2018
Submission Assessing the credibility of how climate adaptation aid projects are categorised	Weikmans, R., Roberts, J. T., Baum, J., Bustos, C., & Durand (2017)	09/05/2018
Submission Postface: fragmentation, failing trust and enduring tensions over what counts as climate finance	Roberts, J. T., & Weikmans, R. (2017)	09/05/2018
Submission The international climate finance accounting muddle: is there hope on the horizon?	Weikmans, R., & Roberts, J.T. (2018)	09/05/2018
Submission UNDP	United Nations Development Programme	06/04/2018
Submission IATI	Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)	21/03/2018
Submission EBRD	European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	16/03/2018
Submission ODI	Overseas Development Institute	15/03/2018
Submission UN ECLAC	United Nations ECLAC	13/03/2018
Submission IDFC	International Development Finance Club	08/03/2018

Capacity-building webinar for integrating gender considerations

Objective of the webinar The objective of the capacity-building webinar is to highlight the linkages of climate finance and gender, and thereby further strengthen the SCF’s capacity to integrate gender into the work of the SCF in the current and forthcoming workplans. Through this webinar members shared their views related to gender and climate finance. Agenda
Presentation: Overview of decisions on gender and their relevance for constituted bodies, including the SCF by Ms. Fleur Newman, UNFCCC secretariat
Presentation: Gender Aspects of public and private financial flows - latest research by Ms. Mariama Williams, South Centre
Presentation: Gender-Responsive Climate Finance by Ms. Tara Daniel, Women's Environment and Development Organization

Coherence and coordination for financing for forests : Contributions on relevant information/case studies

Received contributions on relevant information/case studies: coherence and coordination for financing for forests
Received information	Sent by	Affiliation / Organization	Date received
Submission Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (57 kB) Institutional analysis of incentives for the provision of forest goods and services: An assessment of incentive schemes in Catalonia (north-east Spain) Green Book on payments for environmental services from Mediterranean forests	Denis Boglio	Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, Spain	13 October 2014
Submission United Nations Forum on Forests (65 kB)	Hossein Moeini-Meybodi	United Nations Forum on Forests	16 October 2014
Submission Tropenbos International (64 kB) Financing and Business Engagement for Tropical Forests: Recent Publications (1293 kB)	Herman Savenije	Tropenbos International	28 October 2014
Submission OECD (66 kB)	Anthony Cox	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	29 October 2014
Submission Towards Transparency (101 kB)	Cao Hai Thanh	Towards Transparency	6 November 2014
Submission WeForest (67 kB) Submission Paper (322 kB) Good Business: Making private investments work for tropical forests (3669 kB) Guide to investing in locally controlled forestry (1587 kB) Conservation Finance - Moving beyond donor funding toward an investor-driven approach (2303 kB)	Fraser Brown	WeForest	11 November 2014
CfRN Submission on SCF Working Paper (131 kB)	Frederica Bietta	Coalition for Rainforest Nations	20 November 2014
El desarrollo de un Sistema Nacional de Salvaguardas para REDD+ en México (3454 kB) The Development of a National Safeguard System for REDD+ in Mexico (3952 kB)	Juan Carlos Carrillo F.	Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental	6 December 2014
Submission Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) (201 kB)	Lily Minkova	Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST)	17 December 2014
Submission by the Plurinational State of Bolivia (447 kB) Annex 1. The Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests (JMA) (2833 kB) Annex 2. Implementation progress on JMA in the Plurinational State of Bolivia (2069 kB)	National Focal Point of Bolivia	Plurinational State of Bolivia	28 January 2015
Submission Althelia (1255 kB)	Edit Kiss	Althelia ecosphere	30 January 2015
Submission CDP (3174 kB)	Roberta Iley	CDP	30 January 2015
Submission World Bank Group (520 kB)	Rama Chandra Reddy	World Bank Group	30 January 2015
Submission International Emissions Trading Association (240 kB)	Sophy Greenhalgh	International Emissions Trading Association	30 January 2015
Submission Climate Policy Initiative (132 kB)	Angela Falconer	Climate Policy Initiative	31 January 2015
Submission SCS_Coherence_Coordination_UNFCCC_013015 (98 kB) SCS GHG Qualifications Profile (2765 kB)	Christie Pollet-Young	SCS Global Service	31 January 2015
Declaration Pacte Tunisie Verte (3494 kB) Brochure Partenariat Forêts Marocaines (2718 kB)	Ludwig Liagre	GIZ-CPMF	4 February 2015
Submission by FAO, UNEP and UNDP to support REDD+ activities through the UN-REDD programme (410 kB)	Stephen Gold	FAO, UNDP, UNEP	6 February 2015
Submission on ‘relevant information/case studies to inform the working paper on coherence and coordination for financing for forests’ (94 kB) South-originating Green Finance (1870 kB) Climate Change: Implications for Investors and Financial Institutions (1191 kB) Integrated Governance: A new model of governance for sustainability (3188 kB)	Iain Henderson	UNEP FI	6 February 2015
Submission – United States of America (289 kB)	Randy Caruso	United States of America	12 February 2015
Submission – Japan (198 kB)	Ida Mizuki	Japan	16 April 2015
Submission – Center for International Forestry Research (224 kB)	Stephen Leonard	Center for International Forestry Research	22 April 2015
Towards effective national forest funds (8552 kB)	Rao Matta	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	28 April 2015
Submission – Permain Global (86 kB)	Keven Brough	Permian Global Research Ltd	22 May 2015
Submssion - Tools to Unlock Finance for Sustainable Land-Use (566 kB)	Adeline Dontenville	EU REDD Facility, CPI and Climate Focus	10 June 2015
Comments from Peru on the proposed SCF forum on finance for forests (42 kB)	Mirko Serkovic	Ministry of Environment, Peru	23 June 2015
Submission - Brazil´s experiences with the coherence and coordination of climate financing for forests, including ways and means to transfer payments for results-based actions (209 kB)	Leticia Guimaraes	Ministry of the Environment, Brazil	23 June 2015
Contribution from Colombia on the draft concept note on the 2015 Standing Committee on Finance Forum (202 kB)	Santiago Briceño Flórez	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia	23 June 2015
GEF Case Studies (176 kB) GEF report to SCF on REDD+ and SFM (193 kB)	Chizuru Aoki, Roland Sundstrom	GEF	24 June 2015
Comments by Mexico to the Draft Concept Note for the 2015 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance (162 kB)	Roberto Donisch	Government of Mexico	11 July 2015

Fifth review of the Financial Mechanism

COP 19 requested the SCF to continue to provide expert input to the fifth review of the Financial Mechanism, with a view to the review being finalized by COP 20. In addition, COP 19 requested the SCF to continue to provide expert input to the fifth review of the Financial Mechanism, with a view to the review being finalized by COP 20. In this context, the SCF prepared a technical paper on the fifth review (1085 kB) , and included the executive summary of the technical paper in its report to COP 20 for consideration by the COP.

Side event on the work of the SCF related to the fifth review during the 40th session of the SBs, June 2014 Programme; Presentation

Links to financial institutions

Measurement, reporting and verification of support beyond the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance : Submissions of views on elements of the work plan

This section contains submissions received from SCF members and observers on their views on the elements of the workplan on measurement, reporting and verification of support beyond the biennial assessmenet and overview of climate finance. The submission was invited by the SCF at its 10th meeting held in June 2015.

Views on elements of the work plan on measurement, reporting and verification of support beyond the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance
Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission South Centre (129 kB)	South Centre	29/6/2015
Submission GFLAC (698 kB)	Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean	4/7/2015
Submission Rajasree Ray (66 kB)	Rajasree Ray, SCF member	8/7/2015

Presentations delivered by members of the Standing Committee on Finance

2019
22 June	Provisional Programme: Update on the work of the Standing Committee on Finance	Programme
22 June	Update on the work of the Standing Committee on Finance in 2019	Presentation
20 May	WFO General Assembly - Climate Change Working Group technical session	Presentation

2018

1 May

Side event of the Standing Committee on Finance

Presentation

3 May

Second meeting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building

Presentation

18 September

Eighth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw international Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Presentation

4 October

12th meeting of the Advisory Board of the Climate Technology Centre and Network

Presentation

3 December

Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in-session workshops on issues related to agriculture and other future topics that may arise from this work

Presentation

2017

8 May

Side event of the Standing Committee on Finance

Presentation

12 May

First meeting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building

Presentation

13 May

Fourth voluntary meeting on the coordination of support for the implementation of REDD-plus activities in developing countries

2016

18 May

In-session workshop on long-term finance

Presentation

20 May

Side event of the Standing Committee on Finance

Presentation

23 May

Side event of the Standing Committee on Finance SCF side event – Enhancing coherence and coordination of forest finance"

Presentation

23 May

3rd voluntary meeting on the coordination of support for the implementation of activities referred to in Decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70 (REDD+)

Presentation

2015

3 June

Information event of the Standing Committee on Finance

Programme
Presentation

2014

June

Update on the preparation of the first biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows during the first meeting of the contact group of the agenda item on the issue of methodologies for reporting financial information by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention during the 40th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)

Presentation

8 June

Side event on the biennial assessment and overview of climate finance flows at the margins of the 40th session of the SBs,

Programme
Presentation

25 August

Informal Dialogue on Climate Finance, hosted by the incoming Presidency of the COP 20

Presentation

16 - 17 September

Global Forum of the Climate Change Expert Group, OECD

Presentation

29 September - 1 October

Sixth meeting of the Adaptation Committee

Presentation

4 December

Outreach event on financing for forests

Presentation

Report on progress towards achieving the goal of mobilizing jointly USD 100 billion per year by 2020 through to 2025

By decision 4/CP.26, the SCF has initiated the preparation of the report on progress towards achieving the goal of mobilizing jointly USD 100 billion per year to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency of implementation, and is looking for inputs in accordance with the outline approved at its 27th meeting. Information and data should be submitted by 31 July 2022 via email to: Standingcommittee@unfccc.int

Submissions made by non-Party stakeholders

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	ODI	9 August 2022
Submission Submission	OECD	29 July 2022

Report on the doubling of adaptation finance

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) requested the SCF to prepare a report on the doubling of adaptation finance, in line with paragraph 18 of decision 1/CMA.3 for consideration by CMA 5 (Dec. 1/CMA.4, para. 42). SCF 30 agreed on the scope and outline of the report, the workplan and timeline including to issue a call for inputs with a deadline of 31 July 2023. Information in response to the call should be submitted via email to: Standingcommittee@unfccc.int.

Parties

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	Least Developed Countries	2 August 2023
Submission	European Union	31 July 2023
Submission	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	31 July 2023

Non-party stakeholders

Document	Submitted by	Date
Cover letter Submission	Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative	1 August 2023
Submission	African Group of Negotiators Experts Support	31 July 2023
Submission	Climate Policy Initiative	31 July 2023
Submission	Global Citizen	31 July 2023
Submission	Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance	31 July 2023
Submission	SEEK Development	31 July 2023
Submission	SilverLining	31 July 2023
Submission	World Wide Fund for Nature	31 July 2023
Submission	ACT Alliance, Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, Bread for the World, Global Citizen, Oxfam, and the United Nations Foundation	28 July 2023
Submission	London School of Economics and Political Science	28 July 2023
Submission	ODI	27 July 2023
Cover letter Submission	CARE	26 July 2023
Submission	Youth Adaptation Network	20 July 2023
Submission	International Fund for Agricultural Development	7 July 2023

Reports on the Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance

As mandated by the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) reports on its Forum in its annual reports to the COP
2018 SCF Forum - "Climate Finance Architecture - Enhancing collaboration, seizing opportunities" Report (Annex III of 2018 SCF annual report)
2017 SCF Forum - "Mobilizing Finance for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure" Report (Annex V of 2017 SCF annual report)
2016 SCF Forum - "Financial instruments that address the risks of Loss and Damage" Report (Annex III of 2016 SCF annual report)
2015 SCF Forum - "Enhancing coherence and coordination of forest financing" Report (Annex II of 2015 SCF annual report)
2014 SCF Forum - "Mobilizing Adaptation Finance" Executive Summary (Annex IV of 2014 SCF annual report) Full Report
2013 SCF Forum - "Mobilizing Finance & Investment for Climate Action Now" Report (Annex II of 2013 SCF annual report)

Reports, publications and other inputs

This section* contains reports and publications as provided to the Standing Committee on Finance by stakeholders involved in climate finance.

Contributions received
Title	Author	Affiliation	Submitted
Operationalizing a Gender-Sensitive approach in the Green Climate Fund (647 kB)	Liane Schalatek and Katya Burns; edited by Gail Karlsson and Ana Rojas	-	20/06/2013
Toward Mutual Accountability: the 2015 Adaptation Finance Transparency Gap Report (2582 kB)	AdaptationWatch consortium	-	15/01/2016
AGWA recommendations to the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance NEW! (287 kB)	Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)	-	30/09/2016

AGWA recommendations to the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance

Submissions of views on the operational definitions of climate finance

Submissions in response to decision 14/CP.27

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	Senegal, on behalf of LDCs	16 May 2023
Submission (EN) Submission (FR)	Canada	15 May 2023
Submission	Oil Change International and International Institute for Sustainable Development	1 May 2023
Submission	EU	26 April 2023

The COP, at its twenty-sixth session, and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) at its third session, requested the SCF to continue its work on definitions of climate finance, taking into account the submissions received from Parties on this matter, with a view to providing input for consideration at COP 27 (November 2022). This section contains submissions received from Parties and stakeholders on their views on the operational definitions on climate finance.

Submissions made by Parties

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	Philippines	19 Apr 2022
Submission	United States of America	29 June 2022
Submission	Senegal on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)	13 May 2022
Submission	Bolivia (Plurinational State of) on behalf of Bolivia on behalf of LMDC	11 May 2022
Submission	Kenya	30 April 2022
Submission	India	18 March 2022

Submissions made by non-Party stakeholders

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	IIED	6 May 2022
Submission	Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA)	30 April 2022
Submission	Group of MDBs: AfDB, ADB, AIIB, EBRD, EIB, IDBG, IsDB, NDB and WBG	27 April 2022
Submission	Third World Network (TWN)	21 April 2022

This section contains submissions received from Parties on their views on the operational definitions of climate finance for consideration by the SCF in order to enhance its technical work in the context of preparing the fourth (2020) Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows (Decision 11/CP.25 and Decision 5/CMA.2).

Document

Submitted by

Date

Submission

Belize on behalf of the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS)

31 August 2020

Submission

Kingdom of Bhutan on behalf of the Least Developed Countries

30 June 2020

Submission

Republic of Gabon on behalf of the Africa Group of Negotiators

30 June 2020

Submission

Indonesia

4 June 2020

Submission

Japan

15 May 2020

Submission

Honduras on behalf of AILAC Group

13 May 2020

Submission

Canada

13 May 2020

Submission

Norway

12 May 2020

Submission

Philippines

8 May 2020

Submission

Solomon Islands

8 May 2020

Submission

European Union

5 May 2020

Submission

Switzerland on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Group

1 May 2020

Submission

Republic of Vanuatu

1 May 2020

Ways to achieve Article 2.1(c), of the Paris Agreement, including options for approaches and guidelines for implementation

CMA 4 requests the Standing Committee on Finance to continue its work regarding ways to achieve Article 2, paragraph 1(c), of the Paris Agreement, including options for approaches and guidelines for implementation, in accordance with decision 10/CMA.3, paragraph 2, for consideration by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at its fifth session (November–December 2023) and invites Parties and stakeholders in the financial sector to make further submissions thereon.

Call for inputs

Submissions made by Parties

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	ABU	10 August 2023
Submission (French) Submission (English)	Canada	10 July 2023
Submission	India	3 June 2023
Submission	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	1 June 2023
Submission	Saudi Arabia on behalf of Arab Group	25 May 2023
Submission	Bolivia (Plurinational State of) on behalf of Bolivia on behalf of the Like-Minded Developing Countries	25 May 2023
Submission	Norway	15 May 2023
Submission	New Zealand	15 May 2023
Submission	Vanuatu	12 May 2023
Submission	Sweden on behalf of the European Union	11 May 2023

Submissions made by non-Party stakeholders

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	ODI on behalf of Rabia Transitions and ODI, supported by the Independent Global Stocktake and its Finance Working Group	17 August 2023
Submission	Third World Network	8 August 2023
Submission	Care About Climate (CAC) on behalf of Children and Youth Constituency of the UNFCCC (YOUNGO)	16 July 2023
Submission	Climate Action Network	29 June 2023
Submission	Care About Climate on behalf of the YOUNGO constituency	29 June 2023
Submission	Environmental Defense Canada	28 June 2023
Submission	CDP Worldwide	31 May 2023
Submission	NGFS Secretariat	31 May 2023
Submission	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	31 May 2023
Submission	PRI Association	31 May 2023
Submission	Oil Change International, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Friends of the Earth United States US	31 May 2023
Submission	Climate Policy Initiative	31 May 2023
Submission	International Fund for Agricultural Development	29 May 2023
Submission	UNCTAD	26 May 2023
Submission	ODI on behalf of Joseph Feyertag and Charlene Watson (ODI) and David Ryfisch (Germanwatch), supported by the Independent Global Stocktake and its Finance Working Group	11 May 2023
Submission	Aviva Investors	19 April 2023

The CMA 3 invited Parties, operating entities of the Financial Mechanism, international financial institutions and other stakeholders in the financial sector to submit views regarding ways to achieve Article 2, paragraph 1(c) of the Paris Agreement including options for approaches and guidelines for implementation, by 30 April 2022.

Submissions made by Parties

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	Australia	12 August 2022
Submission	India	26 July 2022
Submission	Switzerland on behalf of EIG	16 June 2022
Submission	Norway	3 June 2022
Submission	Senegal on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)	3 June 2022
Submission	Zambia on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN)	1 June 2022
Submission (FR) Submission (EN)	Canada	13 May 2022
Submission	France on behalf of the European Union and its Member States	2 May 2022
Submission	Kenya	2 May 2022
Submission	Vanuatu	30 April 2022
Submission	Chile on behalf of AILAC	29 April 2022

Submissions made by non-Party stakeholders

Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission	David Rouch	28 July 2022
Submission	Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)	30 April 2022
Submission	Care About Climate (CAC) on behalf of The Children and Youth Constituency of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (YOUNGO)	27 April 2022

UNFCCC Constituted Bodies

Adaptation Committee (AC)

Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN)

Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE)

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (ExCom)
* SCF input to WIM technical paper on sources of finance

LDC Expert Group (LEG)

Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB)

Technology Executive Committee (TEC)

2021 SCF Forum: Inputs received

Building on the experience from the previous Forums, where the SCF worked with a wide range of partner institutions and, where possible, held the Forum in conjunction with relevant events, the SCF invites interested stakeholders to submit proposals on its next Forum on the topic of Financing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS):

Scope and purpose of the Forum
NBS related papers and case studies that could inform the Forum
Potential institutions and events to partner with, in the organization of the Forum

Organization	Date
Agence Française De Développement (AFD)	1 July 2020
Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment	2 July 2020
The Pew Charitable Trusts	7 July 2020
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)	23 July 2020
Tebtebba Foundation	24 July 2020
Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator	27 July 2020
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)	30 July 2020
Guatemala : English Spanish	30 July 2020
World Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (WUSME)	30 July 2020
Global Environment Facility (GEF)	30 July 2020
Farmers Constituency	30 July 2020
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)	30 July 2020
Climate Land Ambition Rights Alliance (CLARA)	30 July 2020
Peru	30 July 2020
Brazil	30 July 2020
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)	30 July 2020
Incitare and The Pacific Institute	31 July 2020
International Savanna Fire Management Initiative	31 July 2020
The Nature Conservancy	31 July 2020
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)	31 July 2020
Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC)	31 July 2020
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)	31 July 2020
University of Pennsylvania	31 July 2020
Adaptation Fund	31 July 2020
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)	31 July 2020
Forests for Life Partnership (FFL)	31 July 2020
Conservation International (CI), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Land Use and Climate Knowledge Initiative (LUCKI), National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Rare, Seychelles' Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and World Wildlife Fund (WWF)	31 July 2020
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)	31 July 2020
Climate Advisors Incorporated	31 July 2020
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)	31 July 2020
Rio Impact	31 July 2020
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH	3 August 2020
Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance	3 August 2020
France	3 August 2020
Paraguay	3 August 2020
Global Commission on Adaptation	4 August 2020
CDP Worldwide	4 August 2020
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)	5 August 2020
United Nations Convention to Combat Dessertification (UNCCD)	5 August 2020
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)	7 August 2020
Green Climate Fund (GCF)	15 September 2020
Third World Network	15 September 2020
Indonesia	23 September 2020

2016 SCF Forum: Additional Information

Organization	Files
African Risk Capacity (ARC)	ARC_Overview (136 kB) ARC_and_ARC LTD (292 kB) ARC_Cost of Drought (418 kB) ARC_XCF_ARC_Factsheet (187 kB)

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2016 SCF Forum: Inputs received

The SCF agreed to invite inputs on the topics below, in order to inform the Forum’s preparatory work: Scope and purpose of the Forum The SCF invites its members and interested stakeholders to the Forum to submit their inputs on the scope and purpose of the Forum and also to provide relevant information/case studies that would inform the Forum. Potential institutions and events to partner with in the organization of the Forum Building on the experience from the previous Forums, where the SCF worked with a wide range of partner institutions and held the Forum in conjunction with relevant events, the SCF agreed to explore partnerships for the upcoming fourth SCF Forum and hence invites its members and interested stakeholders to the Forum to provide information on potential organizations with whom to partner as well as events (ideally taking place between May and September 2016), with which the Forum could be held in conjunction.
Organization	Date
Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) (297 kB)	05/02/2016
LEAD Pakistan (232 kB)	15/02/2016
Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (Excom) (173 kB)	22/02/2016
Swiss Re (77 kB)	22/02/2016
ICCCAD (International Center for Climate Change and Development) & CDL Brown (Climate and Development Lab) (133 kB)	23/02/2016
Munich Re (197 kB)	26/02/2016
African Risk Capacity (ARC) (420 kB)	28/02/2016
Climate Justice Programme (125 kB)	29/02/2016
United Nations World Food Programme & Oxfam America (616 kB)	29/02/2016
CAN International (536 kB)	29/02/2016
SCF member: Sarah Conway (312 kB)	29/02/2016
United Nations World Food Programme (403 kB)	01/03/2016
Republic of Mali on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators (105 kB)	06/03/2016
Japan (85 kB)	10/03/2016
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) (121 kB)	21/03/2016

2013 SCF Forum : Documents of the meeting

SCF Forum, 28 May 2013 in Barcelona, Spain

Programme of the 2013 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance

Presentations and background material provided during the forum:

Avril Benchimol, Interamerican Development Bank
Mobilizing finance for the Private Sector, Innovation in LAC (1971 kB)

Barbara Buchner, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
CPI Spaghetti 2012 (140 kB)

Diann Black-Layne and Konrad von Ritter
Crowdfunding for Climate Change (321 kB)

Jane Ellis, Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, OECD secretariat
Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance (976 kB)
Updated information on bilateral aid data (469 kB)
CRS dataset on Rio markers
Analytical papers on mobilising and tracking climate finance

Alexander Froede, Environment and Climate Change Division, Competence Centre for Climate Change, GIZ
It’s not just the money: institutional strengthening of national climate funds (1326 kB)
Capacity development for direct access to climate finance (1156 kB)
Climate Finance Readiness - Preliminary approach and insights from efforts in Southern Africa (308 kB)

Juan Gomez, Lead Financial Markets and Climate Change Specialist, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division, Inter-American Development Bank
The role of national development banks (3244 kB)
The role of national development banks (Spanish version) (3367 kB)

Jessica Jacob, Director for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Findeter, Colombia
Findeter - Supporting Sustainable Development (2294 kB)
Colombian Green Protocol (476 kB)

Franka Klingel, Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, EBRD
Joint MDB Report on Adaptation Finance 2011 (464 kB)
Joint MDB Report on Mitigation Finance 2012 (462 kB)

2015 SCF Forum : Inputs on potential partnership and events

For the first two SCF Forums, the SCF worked with partner organizations and held the Forum in conjunction with their events, such as Carbon Expo (2013) and Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum (2014). In planning for the 2015 SCF Forum to be held on the topic of financing for forests background document (in accordance with decision 2/CP.17 paragraph 121(a) and 9/CP.19 paragraphs 20 and 21), it was agreed by the SCF to: further explore partnerships for the upcoming 2015 SCF Forum and invite its members and interested organizations to provide information on potential partnerships and events with which the Forum could be held in conjunction.
Received information	Sent by	Affiliation / Organization	Date received
Submission Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (62 kB) Leaflet of the MFW4 (483 kB) ToR of the specific session on Carbon Finance and the application of REDD+ in the mediterranean (317 kB) Brochure of the Forest Hub at Sant Pau Historical Site (3601 kB)	Denis Boglio	Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, Spain	14 October 2014
Submission United Nations Forum on Forests (60 kB) Draft proposal for partnership related to the 2015 SCF Forum (103 kB)	Hossein Moeini-Meybodi	United Nations Forum on Forests	30 October 2014
Letter to the SCF (presented during the eighth meeting of the SCF) (267 kB) Letter of Interest and proposed and proposed partnership (31 October 2014) (180 kB)	Steve Leonard	Center for International Forestry Research	31 October 2014
Submission IETA - SCF Forests Forum 2015 (377 kB)	Sophy Greenhalgh	International Emissions Trading Association	31 October 2014
Submission (178 kB)	Sarah Conway	SCF Member	4 November 2014
XIV World Forestry Congress	Tiina Vahanen	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)	19 January 2015

2014 SCF Forum : Documents of the meeting

SCF Forum, 21 and 22 June 2014 in Montego Bay, Jamaica

Programme of the 2014 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance

Presentations and background material provided during the forum:

Mr. Jeffery Spooner, Head of Agency, Meteorological Service, Ministry of Water, Land, Environment & Climate Change, Jamaica
Remarks by Mr. Jeffrey Spooner (120 kB)

Ms. Asha Bobb-Semple, on behalf of the UNDP Resident Representative
Opening_Asha Bobb-Semple (558 kB)

Mr. Clifford Mahlung, Adaptation Committee representative
The UNFCCC Adaptation Committee: Building Coherence on Finance (253 kB)
Information note for the 2014 SCF Forum issued by the Adaptation Committee and the Standing Committee on Finance (467 kB)

Ms. Barbara Buchner, Senior Director of Climate Policy Initiative and head of Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) Europe
Adaptation Finance - Climate Policy Initiative (563 kB)

Mr. Mikko Ollikainen, Senior Climate Change Specialist, Adaptation Fund
Concrete adaptation projects - What have we learned? (894 kB)

Mr. David Kaluba, Principal Economist (EMD)/National Coordinator (PPCR), Ministry of Finance, Government of Zambia
Mainstreaming Climate Resilience into Development Plans (1578 kB)

Ms. Diann Black-Layne, Ambassador, Government of Antigua and Barbuda
Petrocaribe case study (66 kB)

Mr. Luis Fiallos, National Focal Point of Nicaragua to the UNFCCC

Adaptation policy in Nicaragua (105 kB)

Mr. Daniel Buckley, Climate Change Policy Analyst, UNDP
The status of public finance related to national funding for developing countries (976 kB)

Ms. Stephanie Ockenden, Economist/Policy analyst, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The status of public finance related to bilateral finance (1934 kB)

Mr. Gerard Alleng, Climate Change Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Policy based loan in Trinidad and Tobago (269 kB)

Ms. Nancy Saich, Managerial Adviser, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Cooperation with the Caribbean Development Bank on lending for adaptation (357 kB)

Mr. Takashi Hongo, Senior Fellow, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute
Adaptation finance by private funds for private investment (1504 kB)

Ms. Isabelle Proulx, Programme Manager, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Developing a model of how to bridge adaptation projects with private equity (887 kB)

Mr. Isaac Anthony, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)
The role of insurance in adaptation finance in the Caribbean (584 kB)

Ms. Joanna Syroka, Programme Director, African Risk Capacity
The role of insurance in adaptation finance in Africa (437 kB)

Mr. Trevion Manning, Director of Planning, St. James Parish Council, Representative of the city of Montego Bay
Smart city project in Montego Bay (9512 kB)

Ms. Saliha Dobardzic, Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Climate risks and adaptation solutions in urban areas and settlements (628 kB)

Mr. James Alexander, Head of the Finance and Economic Development Initiative, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
The work of cities in adaptation finance and remaining challenges (769 kB)

Ms. Chantal Naidoo, Senior Associate of E3G’s International Climate Finance Programme
Financing resilience at the sub-national level in South Afirica (148 kB)

Mr. Daniel Rossetto, Managing Director, Climate Mundial
Case studies of climate resilience in urban areas and their funding (933 kB)

Mr. Syed Mujtaba Hussein, Director General and Special Assistant to the Minister, Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms, Government of Pakistan
Water management and adaptation in Pakistan (2270 kB)

Mr. Alfred Grunwald, Climate Change Senior Specialist, Coordinator for PPCR Bolivia, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Adaptation to climate impacts in water regulation and supply (1843 kB)

Mr. Batu Uprety, Chair of the LDC Expert Group
National adaptation in LDCs (153 kB)

Mr. Jan Willem den Besten, Senior Programme Officer, IUCN Netherlands
Mobilizing private sector finance, and mapping and scaling up climate resilience (972 kB)

Mr. Abiy Ashenafi, Program Coordinator Ethiopia, ICCO
Climate change adaptation and addressing deforestation along the coffee value chain, the case of Ethiopia (899 kB)
Video during the presentation

Ms. Claire Bernard, Deputy Director General, Sustainable Development and Regional Planning with the Planning Institute of Jamaica
The Adaptation Fund case study from Jamaica (200 kB)

Mr. Albert Binger, Member of the Technology Executive Committee
Outcomes of the TEC Adaptation workshop (1063 kB)

Mr. Amjad Abdulla, Director-General, Department of Climate Change and Energy, Maldives
SIDS DOCK case study (297 kB)

Mr. Kepa Solaun, Partner and General Director, Factor CO2
Case studies from energy and transport (1424 kB)

Ms. Sandy Ferguson, Knowledge and Policy Manager, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Climate resilient hydropower: experiences from the EBRD region (1080 kB)

Mr. Miguel Naranjo Gonzales, Programme Officer, Sustainable Development Mechanisms, UNFCCC
Experience and potential of the CDM for mitigation with adaptation co-benefits (545 kB)

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2013 : Submissions on elements to be taken into account for the development of a work programme on measurement, reporting and verification of support and the conduct of the biennial assessments and overview of climate finance flows in 2014

This section* contains submissions on elements to be taken into account for the development of a work programme on measurement, reporting and verification of support and the conduct of the biennial assessments and overview of climate finance flows in 2014, as provided to the Standing Committee on Finance by stakeholders involved in climate finance pursuant to specific calls for inputs by the Standing Committee on Finance.

Call for inputs on elements to be taken into account for the development of a work programme on measurement, reporting and verification of support and the conduct of the biennial assessments and overview of climate finance flows in 2014, June-July 2013
Document	Submitted by	Date
Submission CPI (799 kB)	Climate Policy Initiative	29/7/2013
Submission Germanwatch (202 kB)	Germanwatch	30/7/2013
Submission Haites (125 kB)	Erik Haites, Margaree Consultants Inc.	31/7/2013
Submission OECD (218 kB)	OECD	31/7/2013
Submission IAETA (146 kB)	IAETA	31/7/2013
Submission CIF (193 kB)	CIF	31/7/2013
Submission BlindSpot Think Tank (70 kB)	BlindSpot Think Tank	31/7/2013

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