Climate finance was also on the agenda of development finance negotiations in 20152, emphasising a growing priority to better understand and manage the co-benefits and trade-offs between financing for sustainable development and climate change. The growing recognition of the urgency to act on climate change and the importance of financing for development heighten the need to ensure that finance is effectively allocated, disbursed and delivered. This paper, and the underpinning qualitative research upon which the findings rest, explores the question “what enables effective international climate finance in the context of development cooperation?”