This note contains a summary of the second biennial high-level ministerial dialogue on climate finance under the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, held during its fifth session. It has been prepared by the President of that session with the support of the secretariat. As mandated, the dialogue was informed by the second biennial communications submitted in accordance with Article 9, paragraph 5, of the Paris Agreement and the summary report on the biennial in-session workshop thereon.