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The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 13 on climate action.

SDG 13 aims to strengthen countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters by integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation measures into national strategies, policies and planning.

Indicator can be considered as identical to global SDG indicator 13.a.1 "Mobilized amount of United States dollars per year starting in 2020 accountable towards the $100 billion commitment".

In 2015 the EU launched the Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+), a seven-year thematic flagship programme to help the world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable transition to a climate resilient low-carbon future. It is a platform for dialogue and exchange of experience between the EU and developing countries, and also acts as a source of technical and financial support.

The indicator measures the total amount spent from the annual budget of the EU Member States as well as of the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, in order to contribute to the international 100bn USD commitment for climate finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The 21^st UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Paris urged developed-country Parties again to ‘scale up their level of financial support, with a concrete roadmap to achieve the goal of jointly providing USD 100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation and to further provide appropriate technology and capacity-building support.

Million EUR (current prices).

Calendar year.

Indicator from non-ESS sources. For assessment of accuracy please refer to the original source (see link to external data source and metadata in section “Annexes”).

DG CLIMA (EIOnet)

Data source: European environment information and observation network (EIOnet)

Data provider: European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), based on Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) 525/2013.

Every year

Indicator is updated annually.

T+2 years

New data points are disseminated within two years after the reference year.

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus European Commission (EC) and European Investment Bank (EIB)

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States.

< 5 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in year 2014.

< 3 data points

Length of comparable time series without methodological break is 2 data points.

Analysis of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context).

See table  sdg_13_50

Eurostat dedicated section on SDGs: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

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