In this update, Ryan Anderton highlights the changing landscape of DFI climate finance, shares insights from the 2025 DFI Transparency Index, and outlines his hopes for future progress.
Multilateral climate funds play a crucial role in channelling significant portions of climate finance and will be key in efforts to meet the new $300 billion goal. But what do we know about how this climate finance is deployed, who receives it and the impact it’s having? To gain an insight into the transparency of these funds we have investigated the four largest multilateral climate funds: the Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Climate Investment Funds, and Adaptation Fund.
Development finance institutions (DFIs) are increasingly pivotal in the climate finance landscape. As they channel more resources to climate finance, and prepare for a new global goal for low- and middle-income countries, Ryan Anderton investigates what exactly we know about current DFI climate investments. In short, he finds a messy picture. Enhanced transparency is crucial if we want to ensure that climate finance is valid, accountable and, most importantly, effective.
Catch up on the launch of the first DFI Transparency Index on 25 January 2023 and hear the views of DFIs, CSOs, shareholders and government on the findings and the future.
This blog examines the importance of ESG and accountability to communities – the third component of our DFI Transparency Tool. It reviews how the rights-based approach for access to information has affected the ESG disclosure of development finance institutions. It welcomes the shift towards presumption of disclosure from DFIs, and discusses why a commitment to pro-active disclosure of all ESG information is needed for openness and accountability to the public and project-affected communities.
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