Calculator: Climate finance mobilised and income gains via circular migration
Enter the programme parameters below to estimate: (i) private adaptation finance mobilised via remittances, and
(ii) annual household income gains in migrants’ countries of origin. All amounts are shown in US dollars (US$).
Climate finance results
Average remitted amount per migrant after transfer costs
Climate finance mobilised per migrant
Total climate finance mobilised for all migrants
Programme facilitation costs entered
Leverage ratio (climate finance ÷ facilitation costs)
Income gains: Remittances versus counterfactual earnings
Here, per-migrant income gain is defined as: net remittances after transfer costs − participation cost − opportunity cost.
By default, opportunity cost is set to 6 months' earnings of the selected income level in the country of origin, but you can edit it above based on the duration of the migration programme.
Income gain versus money earned in the same period in the country of origin