Official Statistics
UK International Climate Finance results 2026
This page provides the 2026 International Climate Finance (ICF) results for the UK government.
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From April 2011 to March 2026, it is estimated that International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes have:
- directly supported over 159 million people to cope with the effects of climate change
- provided 92.7 million people with improved access to clean energy
- supported 34.8 million people with improving their resilience to climate change
- reduced or avoided 201 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
- installed 5,940 megawatts of clean energy capacity
- avoided 578,000 hectares of ecosystem loss
- generated or protected ecosystem services with a value of £6.27 million
- mobilised £12.6 billion public and £13.4 billion private finance for climate change purposes in developing countries
- supported the sustainable management of 21.5 million hectares of land
- supported 138 countries, 6.76 million people and 14,000 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.