The authors of this paper study the coordination efforts of the two most important multilateral climate funds, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on the global level as well as within two recipient countries, Kenya and Zambia. Read more
Alejandra Padín-Dujon writes that the World Bank’s massive, longstanding vehicle for climate finance, the CTF, was notably absent from climate conversations at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings. Read more
This World Bank event brings together high-level experts to share policy experiences and insights on the use of behavioral change to drive climate action and protect the environment. Read more
Welcoming the announcement today that the United States has nominated Ajay Banga as President of the World Bank, Professor Lord... Read more
Multilateral development banks are increasingly central to global efforts to reduce poverty, improve opportunity and address climate change. This commentary examines the recent G20 panel proposal on ‘callable capital’ as part of the multilateral development bank reform agenda. Read more
This letter from Lord Nicholas Stern to Aleksei Mozhin (Dean of the IMF Board) concerns recent discussions and reports concerning the role of Kristalina Georgieva in relation to the World Bank publication “Doing Business”. In the letter Lord Stern outlines why he has full confidence in Kristalina and in her continued leadership over the coming crucial years. Read more
Welcoming the publication this week of the World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan for 2021-25, Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham... Read more
