a recent danish study made an initial estimate of the levels of climate finance they mobilised through both bilateral and multilateral public climate finance channels mostert et al however due to the pilot and preliminary nature of these studies the results have not been used by countries in the context of the biennial reports to the unfccc with the exception of france more generally only four countries canada finland and japan in addition to france have included quantified estimates of total private climate finance mobilised in their second biennial reports br and a fifth sweden has included some quantified examples with the aim of ensuring synergies and a convergence of approaches with the climate finance community this work is being conducted in close collaboration with the research collaborative on tracking private climate finance