Breakout A summary slides CCXG GF September 2016 Domestic institutions and capacities for monitoring climate finance

1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Domestic institutions and
capacities for monitoring
climate finance
Co-facilitators: Tomonori Sudo, Diann Black-Layne
CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
13 September 2016

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Advantages and challenges for monitoring
climate finance (CF)
 Make clear needs/objectives of collecting CF
monitoring
o Tracking CF helps countries to develop a CF strategy and
prioritise expenditure
o This can fit within broader national objectives of ensuring
coherence between policy objectives and spending
o … but tracking is complex, as climate finance flows to
many institutions within and outside central government
o Enhancing national demand for information can help
improve information on climate finance flows and
expenditure
o Need to overcome low awareness in key actors

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
Institutions for monitoring climate finance
(CF)
 Utilise existing institutions vs create Institutions
o No clear institutional home for CF tracking in many countries
o Some countries have set up or are establishing new
institutions (e.g. climate finance committees), tools (e.g.
information hub) or exercises (e.g. CPEIR) to identify and
track climate inflows and/or public expenditure
o Sustainability of these institutions and systems is important:
targeted capacity building of experts is key
o Cross-cutting nature of climate change means that involving
multiple ministries is needed
o Neutral (not sector-specific) institutions with high-level
mandate are useful to lead; need mandate for data
collection

4. 4 Climate Change Expert Group
Capacities for monitoring climate finance
(CF)
 Make sure that capacity development is sustainable
o Need to inform and engage stakeholders, e.g. to
develop consensus on scope of climate change activity
and CF
o Using tracking tools for CF may require additional
training for government officials, e.g. within finance
ministry
o Maintaining and sustaining capacity essential
 Engaging with universities and other non-
governmental experts to maintain knowledge
 Documenting all capacity development so it can be
transmitted
o Specific, targeted capacity development more helpful
than generic training; can be resource intensive