Relates to an investment that:
a) is intended to produce an improvement, or something that is diagnosed as an improvement, in the physical and/or biological environment of the recipient country, area or target group concerned: or
b) includes specific action to integrate environmental concerns with a range of development objectives through institution building and/or capacity development.  

Adapted from:  Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds. Examples include: budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds, project-type interventions and scholarships and student costs in donor countries.

Relates to an investment that promotes at least one of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity: 

• the conservation of bio-diversity, 
• sustainable use of its components (ecosystems, species or genetic resources), or 
• fair and equitable sharing of the benefits of the utilisation of genetic resources.  

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Relates to an investment that maintains or increases resilience of human or natural systems to climate change by building capacity to adapt to, or absorb, climate change stresses and shocks (including climate variability and disasters). This includes activities intended to reduce exposure to climate change or minimise potential impacts.

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Relates to an investment that limits or reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere or enhances GHG capture. This includes efforts to limit emission sources (e.g. through limiting the burning of fossil fuels and increasing uptake of renewable energy) and activities to remove emissions from the atmosphere through natural processes of greenhouse gas capture (e.g. rehabilitating forests) or technical solutions (e.g. direct air capture).

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Financial assistance provided to developing countries in support of climate change adaptation and mitigation. 

The type of collaboration involved in the investment disbursements, e.g. “bilateral” or “multilateral”. For the purposes of collaboration type, “multilateral” is based on two criteria: the multilateral character of the recipient institution and the multilateral character of the contribution. Both criteria must be satisfied for the multilateral collaboration type to be assigned.

Relates to an investment that aims to combat desertification or mitigate the effects of drought in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas through prevention and/or reduction of land degradation, rehabilitation of partly degraded land, or reclamation of desertified land.  

Adapted from: Converged Statistical Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and the Annual DAC Questionnaire Annexes – modules D and E 

Short for Civil Society Organisation.

 All amounts are presented in Australian dollars.