the challenge for all providers of climate finance to address this imbalance in line with the commitments made in the paris agreement this will provide a backdrop for consideration of how to restructure climaterelated development finance to achieve a balance between mitigation and adaptation financing while prioritising public finance to ldcs and sids as envisaged in the paris agreement it may also provide an opportunity to consider how to address any competition for international public finance between development and climate priorities in lowincome countries for example by looking at ways to use other forms of climaterelated development finance or more limited smarter use of oda to leverage and catalyse investment into mitigation action in middleincome countries eg through greater use of guarantee instruments