in general as economic development levels increase andor the domestic financial systems mature finance tends to be delivered through multilateral channels however a range of other factors also affect delivery of climate finance such as geopolitical interests and historical relationship with finance providers given the data present a snapshot of and a few largescale projects committed during the period could distort the overall picture for instance armenia eg infrastructure in energy water and agriculture sectors supported by germany and uzbekistan eg largescale power plants supported by japan receive a large portion of finance through bilateral channels