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UK International Climate Finance results 2025
This page provides the 2025 International Climate Finance (ICF) results for the UK government.
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From April 2011 to March 2025, it is estimated that International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes have:
- directly supported over 137 million people to cope with the effects of climate change
- provided 89 million people with improved access to clean energy
- supported 33 million people with improving their resilience to climate change
- reduced or avoided 145 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
- installed 4,872 megawatts of clean energy capacity
- avoided 717,000 hectares of ecosystem loss
- generated or protected ecosystem services with a value of £6.2 million
- mobilised £10.5 billion public and £10.4 billion private finance for climate change purposes in developing countries
- supported the sustainable management of 12 million hectares of land
- supported 141 countries, 3.4 million people and 7,500 organisations with technical assistance
UK International Climate Finance is a portfolio of investments with a goal to support international poverty eradication now and in the future. It aims to help developing countries manage risk and build resilience to the impacts of climate change, take up low-carbon development at scale and manage natural resources sustainably.
Many of these programmes have long-lived benefits and will continue to deliver further results over the years to come.
Updates to this page
Published 9 October 2025