Private Philanthropy for Development SDG13: Climate Action Preliminary* insights on 2018-2020* Over recent years, private philanthropic foundations have largely stepped up their financing towards climate action in developing countries Top providers, USD million, 2018-2020 average 2019 prices
USD million, 2019 prices 1,624
Bezos Earth Fund* BMGF CIFF United Postcode Lotteries IKEA Fnd William & Flora Hewlett Fnd Oak Fnd David & Lucile Packard Fnd* Rockefeller Fnd* Grameen Crédit Agricole Fnd Bloomberg Family Fnd* J.D. & C.T. MacArthur Fnd
916
877
2018
2019
329 162 150 132 101 97 57 48 37 34 33 32
* The figure for the Bezos Earth Fund only represents its 2020 commitments. BMGF stands for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CIFF for the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.
2020
Mainly through activities with a multi-regional reach in the agriculture, environmental protection and energy & transport sectors
Main sectors, 2018-20 average, 2019 prices Agriculture, forestry and fishing
315
Environmental protection (policy and conservation)
285
Energy & transport
214
Social infrastructure and services Awareness raising in provider countries Urban development and other multisector
By region, 2018-20 average, 2019 prices
82 58 Multi-regional 44
Adaptation only
(or unspecified) 49%
Both mitigation and adaptation
Africa
Asia and
LATAM and
22%
Oceania 19%
the Caribbean 6%
Mitigation only
* As of November 2021, the 2020 figures are provisional pending the completion of the data collection on 2020 flows.
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Development Co-operation Directorate