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    Finance
    Insights
    April 17, 2024

    Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task?

    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    Setting up a solar-powered water pump to pump groundwater in Ethiopia.
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    • development
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    Finance
    Insights
    December 1, 2023

    The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2022

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Women farmers in New Delhi, India, crouch in the fields in the summer heat.
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Finance
    Technical Perspectives
    July 6, 2023

    MDBs Need Major Reforms, Not Just More Funding, to Address Climate and Development Finance Challenges

    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate finance
    • sustainable development goals
    Women and children walking among tents in a refugee camp in Somalia.
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate finance
    • sustainable development goals
    Finance
    Technical Perspectives
    February 17, 2023

    How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

    • multilateral development banks
    • Climate
    • low carbon development
    Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
    • multilateral development banks
    • Climate
    • low carbon development
    Finance
    Insights
    November 11, 2022

    The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2021

    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate change
    Restoration of a preserve in FL
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate change
    Finance
    Insights
    July 28, 2021

    The Good, the Bad and the Urgent: MDB Climate Finance in 2020

    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate change
    • COP26
    Farmers check crops
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • climate change
    • COP26
    Climate
    Insights
    May 10, 2021

    5 Ways the World Bank’s Climate Action Plan Could Go Further

    • multilateral development banks
    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    Wind Park near Kavarna, Bulgaria.
    • multilateral development banks
    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • adaptation finance
    Finance
    North America
    Insights
    January 28, 2021

    4 Climate Finance Priorities for the Biden Administration

    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • development
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • multilateral development banks
    View of the White House and surrounding Washington, D.C. streets from above.
    • Climate
    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • development
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • multilateral development banks
    Finance
    Technical Perspectives
    October 7, 2020

    INSIDER: The World Bank’s Policy Lending Can Better Support Climate Action

    • coronavirus
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    People with backpacks and small children walk on a dirt road away from Antanarivo.
    • coronavirus
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Cities
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 5, 2020

    A Fairer and More Sustainable Post-COVID World in Latin America

    • biking
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • infrastructure
    • sanitation
    • Cities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    • transportation
    • Freshwater
    Silhouette of a person with a bicycle overlooking Belo Horizonte's skyline. Photo by Mariana Gil/WRI.
    • biking
    • Towards a More Equal City
    • infrastructure
    • sanitation
    • Cities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    • transportation
    • Freshwater
    Technical Perspectives
    March 19, 2020

    INSIDER: Multilateral Development Banks Have Made Progress Towards Paris Alignment, but Still Need to Fill in Critical Details

    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Melting Arctic glacier. Photo by Daniel Foster/Flickr
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Finance
    Insights
    June 21, 2019

    Multilateral Development Bank Climate Finance in 2018: The Good, the Bad and the Urgent

    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Solar panel for home use in Sri Lanka. Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection
    • adaptation finance
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Ocean
    Asia Europe
    Insights
    May 1, 2019

    6 Recent Signs of Hope for the Ocean

    • conservation
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • coral reefs
    • biodiversity
    • Ocean
    Coral reef at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Flickr/US Fish and Wildlife Service
    • conservation
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • coral reefs
    • biodiversity
    • Ocean
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 11, 2019

    127 Countries Now Regulate Plastic Bags. Why Aren't We Seeing Less Pollution?

    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    plastic bag pollution
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • Freshwater
    Finance
    Insights
    March 1, 2019

    6 Questions on Climate and Development for the World Bank Presidential Candidates

    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • multilateral development banks
    The World Bank Building in Washington, DC. Flickr/Aaron Webb
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • multilateral development banks
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    January 24, 2019

    Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    indigenous-people-forest
    • Environmental Rights
    • sustainable development goals
    • land rights
    • natural resources
    • Sustainable Development Goal 2
    • Sustainable Development Goal 5
    • Sustainable Development Goal 9
    • Sustainable Development Goal 13
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • Sustainable Development Goal 11
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Finance
    Technical Perspectives
    December 18, 2018

    INSIDER: Development Bank Investments in Electricity Transmission and Distribution Should Align with the Paris Agreement

    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Power tower. Flickr/Robbie V
    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate finance
    • multilateral development banks
    Ocean
    Asia
    Insights
    October 30, 2018

    There's Only One Ocean. This Is Its Moment.

    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean
    Fisherpeople come in at sunset at Sergang Laut. Flickr/Haryadi B
    • Sustainable Development Goal 14
    • Ocean

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