The focus for our climate action is on building Pacific resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes delivery of climate finance across a range of sectors such as fisheries, energy, infrastructure, disaster risk reduction, information for decision making, tackling invasive species, and water and food security.
It also includes bringing climate change Pacific priorities and concerns to the attention of the international community. Partnering with the Pacific in the multilateral system.
New Zealand also supports South and Southeast Asia to reduce emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change with a particular focus on renewable energy, agriculture, and disaster risk reduction.
New Zealand’s climate finance is delivered through the International Development Cooperation (IDC) Programme which provides New Zealand’s official support for developing countries, including climate finance.
You can see more about the wider context of our support for other countries' climate change responses, including our climate finance, under Climate change support.
Our climate commitments
In October 2021 New Zealand committed to spend NZ $1.3 billion in grant-based climate finance between 2022 and 2025. This underlines the importance New Zealand attaches to global and regional efforts to work together to combat climate change.
At least half of this climate finance commitment will support Pacific Island countries and at least 50 percent will target adaptation, a key priority for the Pacific. See stories and information about our partnerships under Climate change support.
For more about how we influence global action, see Working with the world.