PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Developing Countries: Carbon Emissions (9 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the reduction in CO2 emissions funded by UKAid climate finance outside the UK in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

Between 2011/12 and 2019/20 work supported through UK International Climate Finance (ICF) reduced or avoided 31,000,000 metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (tCO2e). The full set of results achieved through UK ICF is available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911393/ICF-Results-Publication-2020.pdf

Annual figures for each of the last ten years are not available.

Answered by:
Sir James Duddridge (Conservative)
21 September 2020