Today, the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) CEO Mafalda Duarte, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to establish a framework for future cooperation between UNFCCC, the Secretariat (i.e., the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agre...

WASHINGTON—The governing board of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) endorsed a wide-ranging investment plan to fast-track the transformation of Colombia’s energy system and help enable its grid system to absorb and channel more clean power.A first-of-its-kind investment in South America, the decision provides Colombia with access to $70 millio...

Why focus on disability inclusion in climate finance? Climate change shocks disproportionally affect persons with disabilities whose resilience capacity is limited. According to WHO, there are one billion persons with disabilities, and over 80 percent of them live in developing countries. Moreover, disability is becoming more prevalent because of c...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, November 11 2022—Today, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) launched CIF Industry Decarbonization, the world’s first multilateral investment program to help developing countries decarbonize hard-to-abate industries such as iron and steel, cement, chemicals and petrochemicals, aluminum, and pulp and paper. The initiative aims to ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, November 9, 2022—The Climate Investment Funds (CIF), one of the world’s largest multilateral funds for climate action in developing countries, will finance nature-based solutions to the climate crisis in Egypt, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Kenya, and Africa’s Zambezi River Basin Region, cutting across Zambia, Malawi, Mozambi...

The governing board of the Climate Investment Funds has opened the door for South Africa and Indonesia to receive $500 million each for a just transition from coal to clean. The decision intends to equip each country with access to $500 million in concessional, risk-bearing capital from CIF’s Accelerating Coal Transition (CIF ACT) investment prog...

WASHINGTON—The governing board of the Climate Investment Funds, one of the world’s largest multilateral funds for climate action in developing countries, endorsed new investment plans set to allocate $1 billion for a just transition from coal to clean power in South Africa and Indonesia. The decision intends to equip each country with access to...

A $950 million U.S. Government loan to the Clean Technology Fund marks a major step forward in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy in developing economies. This week, the United States government announced that it would be increasing its commitment to meeting the challenges of climate change through a $950 million loan to the Climate ...

55 developing countries spanning six continents and representing over two billion people have formally applied for funding from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) new Nature, People, and Climate (NPC) investment program.Productive and sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources is essential to the health, food security, nutrition, and econom...

“The world is in great need of nature-based solutions that place Indigenous peoples and local communities at their center, a strategy I have been pursuing since the 1980s.”So said the globally famous primatologist, conservationist, and UN Messenger of Peace Dr Jane Goodall, before going on to acknowledge the Climate Investment Funds, who she sa...

Launched June 1, the Climate Investment Funds’ latest program– Nature, People and Climate Investment Program– will protect natural environments and improve livelihoods.Founded on the principle that sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources is essential to our health, food security, nutrition, and economic well-being, CIF’s Nature, ...