France continues its 2024 financial commitment to global climate action (6 novembre 2025)

Every year, ahead of the COP – the next meeting of which will take place in Belém (Brazil) from 10 to 21 November 2025 –, France announces its annual climate finance sums for developing countries, in line with its international commitments and in partnership with the other European Union Member States. In 2024, France provided €7.2 billion of climate finance for developing countries, including €3 billion for climate-change adaptation.

This finance predominantly consists of loans, donations from the French Development Agency group and contributions to international financial instruments that support the fight against climate change at global level. Added to this is €719 million of private finance raised by the action of the French Development Agency and Proparco.

In 2024, France allocated €6 billion for the climate in developing countries, at least a third of which was devoted to climate-change adaptation. The increase in finance devoted to adaptation compared to 2023 (€3 billion in 2024 as opposed to €2.8 billion in 2023) reflects France’s commitment to the populations most vulnerable to climate change.

French climate finance reflects a clear priority: in partnership with the recipient countries, to respond to the climate emergency strategically by investing in a way that is mutually supportive for the planet, economic development and stability, in France and worldwide.

Finally, looking ahead to COP30, France calls on all countries, stakeholders and sectors that have the capacity, to contribute to this collective effort. Alongside Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone, Antigua and Barbuda and Djibouti, France is resolutely committed to identifying innovative sources of finance for fair, sustainable transitions.

Monique Barbut, Minister for the Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Climate and Nature Negotiations, said: “In 2024, France confirmed its solidarity with the southern countries, with €7.2 billion raised for the climate, including €3 billion for adaptation. With the approach of COP30 in Belém, our goal remains clear: ambitious, fair climate finance, to which all countries with the capacity must contribute.”

Roland Lescure, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, said: “France’s climate finance consists of strategic, mutually supportive investments for the future of our planet, our country and our economy. It makes it possible to mitigate the costs associated with crises linked to climate change, in France and our partner countries, in the partnership-based, multilateral framework of the Paris Agreement. With this finance, we’re also supporting the French economy by creating markets for our future-growth sectors. We must go on doing even better to ensure that this finance is efficient by accelerating reforms to the international financial institutions, so that every euro has the maximum impact and best serves the general interest.”

Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, said: “Ten years after the Paris Agreement, France is continuing its commitment to the climate. Today, for every €1 invested in the development of fossil fuels in the world, €2 is invested in renewable energy. We are moving faster with our partners towards the coal phase-out, to make economies more sovereign and less dependent on fossil fuels. We are all – States, private stakeholders, economic sectors and civil society – called to play our part.”