How Much Climate Finance?The default view of the calculator shows countries ranked by their percentage share of a whole. Shares add up to 100%. Additionally, users can opt to view these shares as applied to a theoretical dollar number. Currently the calculator shows $100 billion, as a reference, as it represents the $100 billion goal and also the floor of the New Collective Quantified Goal. Our calculator can take very high numbers as inputs. Overall, the calculator’s outputs can be flexibly compared as percentage shares, shares applied to a dollar number, or as rankings.
Countries to IncludeSelect which countries to include in the scenario. Selecting a country group excludes all countries not in that group from the calculation.
Economic/Emissions WeightingThis calculator focuses on two main sets of indicators: Economic indicators and emissions indicators. The balance between the two can be adjusted using this slider. When the slider is in the middle, the scenario takes the average of a country’s share on economic and emissions indicators. In other words, the share of economic and emissions indicators are weighted equally. Sliding all the way to the left will cause the scenario to show only economic indicators. Sliding all the way to the right will show only emissions indicators. Sliding to an intermediate position one-quarter to either side will yield a scenario that is either 75% economics, 25% emissions (to the left) or 25% economics, 75% emissions (to the right).
Economic Factors Only
Equal Mix of Economic and Emissions
Emissions Factors Only
Economic IndicatorThese indicators relate to a country’s capacity to pay. We use World Development Indicators, World Bank’s primary economics database for all economics and population data. Each is shown using a six-year average (from 2017 to 2022) to prevent year-to-year fluctuations from skewing the results.
GHG Emissions IndicatorThese indicators relate to a country’s responsibility for climate change. All emission data comes from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) database for GHG emissions (PRIMAP-hist_v2.5.1). We use GHG emissions including land-use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) to give as complete a picture as possible of GHG-emissions.
Baseline Year for GHG Emissions IndicatorUsers can select the starting year for calculating historical cumulative GHG emissions up to 2022. The options are: 1850, 1990, and 1850/1990 average. The last option uses the average of cumulative emissions calculated from both 1850-2022 and 1990-2022.