to date forwardlooking information on country programmable aid is requested by the oecddac but is only available for a subset of donors one to three years in advance and the climaterelevant portion of this is not always tagged this means that available quantitative forwardlooking information on climate finance provides only an incomplete picture of likely climate finance flows individual reporting on climate finance mobilised at the multilateral or bilateral level is challenging for several reasons including the risk of double counting collective reporting of climate finance mobilised bilaterally andor of climate finance mobilised multilaterally would ensure consistency and avoid double counting as long as there is consistency in the individual underlying data and definitions