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E2: Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development

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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; which is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under the European Green Deal. SDG 13 seeks to implement the commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for achieving a climate neutral world by mid-century to limit global warming to well below 2°C and aiming at 1.5°C (compared to pre-industrial times). It also aims to strengthen countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related natural hazards and the resulting disasters.

Indicator can be considered as identical to global SDG indicator 13.a.1 'Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025'

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 data for 2020 and 2021 covers commitments for both multilateral and bilateral public finance. From 2022 onwards, the data covers bilateral public finance committed and multilateral public finance provided.

Million EUR (current prices) and EUR per capita.

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”).

European Environment Agency (EEA), DG CLIMA

Data source: European Environment Agency (EEA), based on data provided by Member States responding under Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, complemented by data from the European Commission Directorate-General for international Partnerships (DG INTPA) and the European Investment Bank.

Data provider: European Commission Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA).

Every year

Indicator is updated annually.

T+1 year

New data points are disseminated within one year after the reference year.

All EU MS

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

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States.

5 to 10 years

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

< 3 data points

Time series are not fully comparable, given that reporting has been based on different methodologies. Between 2014 to 2019 data was reported under the Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) 525/2013. From 2020 onwards, the data reporting is based on the Governance Regulation 2018/1999 and Article 6 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1208. The data for 2020 and 2021 covers commitments for both multilateral and bilateral public finance. From 2022 onwards, the data covers bilateral finance committed and multilateral finance provided.

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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