Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will include a sub-commitment to nature and forests in the next round of international climate finance, ICF4.

Nature-based solutions, including forests, are among the most impactful and cost-effective climate solutions. Nature regulates our climate and is vital to climate resilience, both acting as a carbon source and sink, and helping us to adapt to the impact of climate change and boost our resilience to climate shocks. This is why a focus on nature is a core priority for our climate finance spend.

Our ICF4 commitment falls in the next Spending Review period. We are working through detailed decisions on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be used from 2026/27 to 2028/29 and will set out those allocations in the near future.