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2025 Joint Summary Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance

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Press Release European Investment Bank Multilateral development banks’ climate finance in low-and middle-income countries jumps 21% to $103 billion last year, according to their new annual report. MDB adaptation finance in low- and middle-income economies rose 31% to $35 billion, and mitigation finance rose 16% to $68 billion. MDBs on track to meet their 2030 climate-finance projections across all their countries of operation. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) including the European Investment Bank (EIB) increased climate finance to record levels in 2025, reinforcing their role in supporting climate-resilient and sustainable economies. Climate finance by MDBs in low- and middle-income countries jumped 21% from the previous year to an all-time high of $103 billion while MDB climate finance across all countries of operation rose 19% to a record $163 billion. The results, published today in the 2025 Joint Summary Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance, confirm that ...
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New Co-Chairs of the UN SDG Advocates

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Guest blog: Lenni Montiel: Senior UN Development Leader (Ret.) | Former UN Assistant Secretary-General |UNDP Resident Representative | Governance, Public Policy & Multilateral Diplomacy | Leadership Advisor & Trainer | Chevening Scholar. Lenni writes on LinkedIn about the UN and international development. Originally published here. S pain and Barbados. One from Europe, one from the Caribbean. Now co-leading the Sustainable Development Goals. The UN Secretary-General has appointed Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez of Spain as Co-Chair of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocates, alongside Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, who has held the position since 2022. Spain succeeds Canada, with Sรกnchez replacing former Prime Minister Trudeau in this leadership role. This pairing is strategic. Barbados, under Mia Mottley, has become one of the world's leading voices on climate action, debt reform, and financing for sustainable development. Spain has consistently posit...
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Angie Brooks - Only African woman President of the UN General Assembly

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Guest blog: Lenni Montiel: Senior UN Development Leader (Ret.) | Former UN Assistant Secretary-General |UNDP Resident Representative | Governance, Public Policy & Multilateral Diplomacy | Leadership Advisor & Trainer | Chevening Scholar. Lenni writes on LinkedIn about the UN and international development. Originally published here. H er parents couldn't afford to raise her. In 1969, she became President of the UN General Assembly. The first and, to this day, only African woman to hold the office. She was only the second woman ever elected to the presidency, after the first woman who served in 1953. Angie Brooks was born in rural Liberia into the family of an impoverished church pastor. As a young child, she was fostered by a widowed seamstress in Monrovia. At the age of eleven, she taught herself to type. She earned money copying legal documents to pay for her education. Later, she worked as a court stenographer to finance her high school studies. It was in those courtroom...
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Dr. John Alan Haines, 1938-2026: A Life of Science, Service and Friendship

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Dr. John Alan Haines, a pioneering figure in international environmental protection, chemical safety and poisoning prevention, died on 7 July 2026 at a retirement home in Challex, France. He had recently turned 88. Over a career spanning more than five decades, John contributed to the development of international policies and practical systems addressing air pollution, industrial environmental management, chemical safety, toxic exposures and poison control. Yet the importance of his work cannot adequately be measured through the senior positions he held, the international meetings he attended or the many technical publications he produced. His greatest achievement was his ability to turn scientific knowledge and international cooperation into practical institutions that protected people and saved lives. John was born in Coventry, United Kingdom, on 25 June 1938. He studied at Imperial College, University of London, before undertaking doctoral research at Churchill College, Universi...
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