in addition there are differences in how climate finance effectiveness is assessed this paper explores different aspects of climate finance effectiveness for example in terms of climate finance outcomes eg environmental economic developmental delivery eg institutions and governance and time horizons eg shortterm vs longterm results the paper uses examples from different types of activities both mitigation and adaptation and explores the issue of effectiveness at a range of scales projects programmes policies the paper focuses on climate finance in the context of the unfccc ie public climate finance as well as the private climate finance mobilised by public interventions