Mainstreaming Climate Change Considerations at the Multilateral Development Banks

The brief finds that over 80 percent of World Bank energy sector lending in the last five years ignored climate change. It recommends that the World Bank and other multilateral development banks revise strategy guidelines, develop a GHG accounting framework, and initiate sector-level emission reduction pilots.

• In the five years preceding the report, more than 80 percent of all World Bank lending within the energy sector failed to consider climate change in project loans.
• The World Resources Institute recommends that the World Bank and other multilateral development banks implement four specific reforms: revising country and sector strategy guidelines to integrate climate change, creating a GHG accounting and options analysis framework, integrating that framework into key sector operations, and starting pilot projects to lower GHG emissions at the sector level with client countries.
• Identifying the additional costs required to finance the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions would assist in mobilizing international financing for those costs.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Mainstreaming Climate Change Considerations at the Multilateral Development Banks. https://www.wri.org/research/mainstreaming-climate-change-considerations-multilateral-development-banks

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Mainstreaming Climate Change Considerations at the Multilateral Development Banks. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/mainstreaming-climate-change-considerations-multilateral-development-banks.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendmainstreaming, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Mainstreaming Climate Change Considerations at the Multilateral Development Banks}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/mainstreaming-climate-change-considerations-multilateral-development-banks}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }