Multilateral development banks unite at COP30 in call to action, resilience and delivery

• New report showcases best practices for delivering resilience and innovative approaches scaling up adaptation results 
• MDBs publish metrics and methodologies to unlock financing for nature and biodiversity

Belém, Brazil — Multilateral development banks (MDBs) reaffirmed today at COP30 their commitment to respond to their clients' priorities to improve livelihoods and create jobs for the resilience of communities and businesses in the face of intensified climate shocks and ecosystem degradation.

Working together as a system, they call for resilient, economically sound development that is rooted in trust and built to last, focusing on stable institutions, reliable infrastructure, employment opportunities, adaptation to the impacts of climate shocks and the capacity to grow within each country’s context. Their efforts to better support clients include:

• Improving the risk profile of investments and attracting more money by finding new ways to involve the private sector. 
• Strengthening how results are measured to better capture and track the impact of their investments. 
• Harmonising their work to simplify financing processes and deliver greater adaptation and mitigation impact
• Advancing the implementation of the Joint MDB Long-Term Strategy Programme to support clients with climate planning and the design and implementation of country-led, country-driven platforms. 

Gianpiero Nacci, Managing Director for Climate Strategy and Delivery at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said: “As MDBs, we are united in driving economic growth while strengthening climate resilience. The green transition is now a business imperative for competitiveness, with clear market signals from governments, investors and businesses showing strong demand for climate finance.”

Delivering at scale

In 2024, MDBs provided US$ 137 billion (€118 billion) in climate finance for adaptation and mitigation and mobilised an additional US$ 134 billion from private capital. Of these amounts, US$ 85 billion and $33 billion were directed to low- and middle-income economies respectively, putting MDBs on track to reach US$ 120 billion from their own accounts and US$ 65 billion in private-capital mobilisation by 2030. 

Accelerating action for adaptation and resilience

Since 2019, MDBs have doubled their support for adaptation and resilience, delivering over US$ 26 billion to low- and middle-income economies in 2024 alone. Based on this experience – not only financing programmes and policies, but also linking finance with policy dialogue, strategic planning and institutional capacity-building – they launched at COP30 the technical paper From Innovation to Impact: Building Resilience for People and Planet, a new report that showcases more than 100 best practices for delivering resilience, including several pioneering instruments that are expanding resources, mobilising private capital and strengthening systemic resilience. 

Enhancing action on nature

The MDBs are supporting clients to scale up investments that actively protect, restore, or enhance nature while generating an economic return by improving metrics, methodologies and the design of financial products. In Belém, they will launch a new framework for nature financing that includes the Common Principles for Tracking Nature Finance and A Practitioner’s Guide to Results Metrics Selection, both designed to support the development of high-quality financial products and attract greater private capital for nature.