it also encompasses the technical review of climate finance provided this is an enhancement of the current framework by requiring all developed countries not just annex ii countries to report on climate finance provided and mobilised extending the technical review of information on climate finance provided to all countries that include this in their national reports to the unfccc and including the provision of finance within the multilateral consideration of progress for all parties the paris agreement also encourages all other countries that provide climate finance to report this information and also encourages reporting of information on climate finance received this paper explores how to improve the transparency of information reported to the unfccc on climate finance provided mobilised and received iceland ireland italy japan luxembourg netherlands new zealand norway portugal spain sweden switzerland united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland united states of america improving the transparency of domestic climate finance methods for estimating climate finance and establishing quantified estimates of climate finance flows are outside the scope of this paper