Standing Committee on Finance (SCF)

17th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance

Credit: UNFCCC

2017 Report to the Conference of the Parties

Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows

2017 SCF Forum "Mobilizing Finance for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure"

Announcements

Seventeenth meeting of the SCF, Bonn, 10 to 12 April
meeting documents
webcast of the meeting.

Outcomes of the meeting

2018 Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows
Call for evidence for the 2018 BA extended to 15 May 2018

Background

At the sixteenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP), Parties decided to establish a Standing Committee on Finance to assist the COP in exercising its functions in relation to the Financial Mechanism of the Convention. This involves:

improving coherence and coordination in the delivery of climate change financing,
rationalization of the Financial Mechanism,
mobilization of financial resources, and
measurement, reporting and verification of support provided to developing country Parties.