Climate finance by multilateral development banks hits record in 2023

Source: www.gulfoilandgas.com 9/20/2024, Location: Europe

Sum for low-and middle-income economies was $74.7 billion, including $24.7 billion for climate change adaptation
MDBs committed record $125 billion last year for climate action worldwide
Mobilized global private finance nearly doubled to $101 billion compared to 2022

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced that their global climate finance reached a record high of $125 billion in 2023. The combined total last year from institutions, including the European Investment Bank, is more than double the amount provided in 2019, when MDBs announced their ambition to increase climate volumes over time at the United Nations Secretary General's Climate Action Summit.

Low and middle-income economies
Last year, $74.7 billion of MDB climate finance were for low- and middle-income economies. Of this sum, 67% – or $50 billion – went to climate change mitigation and $24.7 billion, or 33%, for climate change adaptation. The amount of mobilized private finance for this group of countries stood at $28.5 billion.

High-income economies
In 2023, $50.3 billion was allocated for high-income economies. Of this amount, $47.3 billion, or 94%, were for climate change mitigation and the remaining $3 billion or 6% were for climate change adaptation. The amount of mobilized private finance for high-income countries stood at $72.7 billion.

Climate finance in focus at COP29
Today's comes in the run-up announcement to the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024. One of the key deliverables of COP29 is to increase global climate finance and reach agreement on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance.

EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle said: “Nearly halfway into the critical decade, we must continue to work hard if we are to keep the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC within reach. Since 2019, multilateral development banks have increased their collective climate financing year on year, exceeding our joint targets. In addition, we are strengthening our cooperation to maximize impact for people and the planet through coordinated country-level support for a just transition away from fossil fuels and more work on adaptation and disaster risk management. Ahead of COP29, today's announcement of $125 billion in climate finance sends the strong message that the MDB system is delivering and that the global community can count on MDBs, including the EIB, to accelerate global climate action.”

The EIB delivered record volumes of $42.1 billion of climate finance in high-income economies and $4 billion for low- and middle-income economies through its specialized development arm EIB Global. The EIB mobilized global private finance of $53 billion.

Transparent joint reporting on climate finance
The Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance is an annual collaboration to publish MDBs' climate finance figures, together with a clear explanation of the methodologies for tracking this finance. The joint report, along with the banks' independent publication of their own climate finance statistics, is intended to monitor progress in relation to their joint climate finance objectives such as those announced at COP21 and the greater ambition pledged for the post-2020 period.

The 2023 multilateral development bank report, coordinated and prepared for publication by the European Investment Bank (EIB), combines data from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the EIB, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the New Development Bank (NDB) and the World Bank Group (WBG).


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