Effective climate action relies on robust coordination, strategic engagement, and policy alignment to drive impactful investments. By integrating data, science, and financial planning, stakeholders can prioritize adaptation and mitigation efforts that support sustainable development. This approach bridges policy and finance, unlocking public and private resources to accelerate transformative climate solutions at all levels.
Key features of the Framework include:
Integrating Policymaking With Financial Planning
The Framework integrates financial planning for implementing NDCs, NAPs, and LT-LEDS, and policymaking instruments with the country’s development priorities.
Emphasis on Coordination and Implementation Mechanisms
The Framework recognizes the critical role of national coordination and implementation mechanisms, including key stakeholders such as those centrally located within the government’s executive office, planning and finance ministries, national development banks, and project preparation units. Countries may institutionalize structures and systems to drive investment planning and mobilization, helping to strengthen capacity, increase synergies, and reduce costs over time (e.g., through Country Platforms).
Value of Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Evidence-based approaches underpin the identification and prioritization of adaptation and mitigation investment needs. Using evidence from different sources is crucial to investment design and finance mobilization.
Holistic Approach to Mobilization of Climate Finance Resources to Scale Public and Private-Sector Investments
The Framework employs strategies designed to harness the full spectrum of climate finance sources, including public, private, concessional, and blended finance, to mobilize private-sector investments at scale. The private sector should be engaged across all pillars as early as possible in investment planning.
Creating Enabling Environments
Enabling environments are critical to the success of finance mobilization. The Framework emphasizes the need for robust policy frameworks, regulatory reforms, and institutional capacity building. These elements create conditions conducive to public and private-sector investments, risk reduction, and the overall attractiveness of climate-related investments. By fostering such environments, countries can facilitate smoother implementation processes and greater participation from diverse financial actors.
Common Framework and Language
The framework is intended to serve as a common reference point that all relevant stakeholders (the government, private sector, and finance partners) may use to collectively assess progress and identify concrete interventions for improvement. Based on these assessments, countries may communicate their priority support needs to the NDC Partnership and GCF, who can then help them reduce the duplication and determine the adequacy of their efforts at each stage and step so that they can move forward faster.
Overall, the Framework empowers countries to identify and prioritize their climate-finance needs, tapping into private and public, national, and international sources of financing. The investment planning process aims to strengthen countries’ capacities to attract and mobilize climate finance. At the same time, it provides a foundation for an iterative process within a robust institutional framework led by the country.
A Living and Evolving Resource
The Framework is presented as a living resource and is expected to evolve with input from countries, financiers, support providers, and other users.
Stages
The Framework is organized into six stages