however support for mitigation activities including developing green energy sources and enhancing energy efficiency lags behind although these countries are not significant contributors to ghg emissions at the global level they require additional funding to pursue low carbon development support to improve access to sustainable energy and energy independence and to increase energy security is critical to achieving the low carbon future envisaged by many sids pacific island forum for ldcs climate change oda has more than doubled from to mostly due to a continuous increase in adaptationrelated development finance usd billion to usd billion oecd b but more dramatically due to a tripling of the resources dedicated to climate change mitigation in compared with the previous year this increase was due to large over usd million loans and grants for the energy sector in afghanistan bangladesh malawi and myanmar however adaptation remains the main focus of climaterelated support to ldcs