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In 2007, bilateral official development assistance (ODA) from members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) to activities in support of greenhouse gas mitigation amounted to approximately USD 3.8 billion. This corresponds to about 4 percent of total bilateral ODA that year. Among DAC members the largest donors were Japan (USD 1,33 billion), Germany (USD 0,8 billion) and France (USD 0,5 billion).The data show that aid related to climate change mitigation is mainly extended within the sectors of energy, transport, general environmental protection, water and forestry.

The data are based on the Rio marker on climate change that has been established by the DAC in close collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It addresses the ultimate objective of the Convention, which is climate change mitigation. Accordingly, climate-change-related aid is defined as activities that contribute “to the objective of stabilisation of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by promoting efforts to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration” (Article 2 of the Convention). The following brochure summarises statistics on aid in support of climate change mitigation, extended by each DAC member. Information shown includes also trends over the period 2002-2007 and the sector breakdown.