🌍 From COP30 commitments to COP31 delivery

A year after Belém, the question is no longer what we commit to, but what we deliver.

In his letter to members and partners, IDFC Chair and @BOAD_official President Serge Ekué sets out why Public Development Banks hold a large part of where commitments become reality, close to governments, local markets and the projects themselves.

The IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap 2026 focuses our collective work on three pillars:
🟡 Supporting country-led climate investment and implementation
🟢 Operationalising climate finance solutions through capital mobilisation & risk sharing
🔴 Strengthening the enabling environment for climate investment

The road so far:
📍Bangkok: at the IDFC Annual Meeting last month, members consolidated their contributions ahead of COP31 and welcomed new institutions into the Club, extending our reach and strengthening South–South cooperation
📍Yerevan: at COP17, our members showed how nature and climate finance go hand in hand
📍Antalya: The IDFC Pavilion at COP31 will host 40+ sessions, with our Turkish member @TSKB_Turkiye and Executive Vice President Meral Murathan as the host-country voice, and launch the full IDFC Green Finance Mapping 2026, tracking our members' green finance in 2025, a milestone year for the Club's ambition.

👉 Read the full letter: idfc.org/app/uploads/20…

Join us at the IDFC Pavilion (C535, Blue Zone) or online: youtube.com/channel/UCwD_Q…

#IDFCRoadToCOP31 #COP31 #COP17 #ClimateFinance #ClimateDelivery #PublicDevelopmentBanks

🗓️ Day 1 at the COP31 IDFC Pavilion

COP31 opens today in Antalya with Food, Agriculture and Health Day, and the Presidency’s food security priority puts the food-water-climate nexus and farmers’ access to finance on the agenda from day one.

🟡 Pillar 1: Supporting country-led tation
The hardest step for many countries is turning NDC and NAP priorities into an investment-ready project portfolio. National development banks are well placed to do this. They hold the client relationships, lend in local currency, and can bring ministries, MDBs and private investors around a single national pipeline. Brazil is among the country platform experiences IDFC members are bringing to COP31.

⏰ 10:30-11:30 | Climate and Nature Finance in the Global South: Showcasing Initiatives for Scale (@bndes)
⏰ 16:00-17:00 | The Role of NDBs in Translating Climate Ambition into Investment (@I4CE_)

🟢 Pillar 2: Operationalising climate finance solutions through capital mobilisation & risk sharing
Agricultural value chains increasingly face climate, market and credit risks at the same time. Keeping investment and credit flowing depends on how those risks are shared between producers, agribusinesses, financial institutions and the public sector. CAF's session asks what arrangements keep agricultural credit flowing when risks combine, and reports on progress in implementing its Agricultural Prosperity Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean

⏰ 12:00-13:00 | Agricultural Prosperity Strategy (@AgendaCAF)

📍 IDFC Pavilion | C535 | Blue Zone | Antalya time (UTC+3)
📺 Livestream: youtube.com/channel/UCwD_Q…

#COP31IDFC #COP31 #PublicDevelopmentBanks #ClimateFinance #CountryPlatforms

🗓️ What's on at the IDFC Pavilion at #COP31

IDFC will be in Antalya for COP31, along side our Turkish member @TSKB, hosting a full schedule of events that showcase the shift from commitments to delivery.

COP31 is a key milestone in the arc from climate finance ambition towards ivery. Public Development Banks can play a key role in this arc as long-term implementation partners. The COP31 Presidency set measurable global targets for 2035 under its Action Agenda, providing a clear benchmark for implementation. Over 2026, IDFC has been supporting its 29 members in how they contribute, across three pillars:

🟡 Supporting country-led climate investment and implementation
🟢 Operationalising climate finance solutions through capital mobilisation & risk sharing
🔴 Strengthening the enabling environment for climate investment

At the IDFC Pavilion, we will share members' experiences from operationalising these three workstreams: country platforms turning national strategies into bankable projects, guarantees working as a system rather than deal by deal, and urban climate investment moving from municipal priorities to finance and more.

👇See our full programme below and join us at the IDFC Pavilion (C535, Blue Zone) or online: youtube.com/channel/UCwD_Q…

#IDFCRoadToCOP31 #PublicDevelopmentBanks #ClimateFinance #SustainableDevelopment

🌍 From commitment to implementation: our first #COP17 member feature puts the spotlight on @AFD_en .

During #COP17, we’re showcasing how IDFC members are turning biodiversity commitments into concrete action. Here are two AFD projects already making a difference:

- supporting public policy for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, strengthening governance and the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.

- DR Congo: €40M in loans and €10M in grants to make Boma city more resilient, using nature-based solutions such as revegetation, flood management and ecological corridors for its 440,000 residents.

These projects show how public development banks put nature at the heart of how they invest, in line with Pillar 3 of the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap.

📍 Meet AFD at COP17. Audrey Rojkoff, Head of the Climate and Nature Division, speaks at the ADB side event “From Commitment to Capital: Scaling Nature-Positive Investment through the ADB–EU Partnership in the Nature Solutions Finance Hub”.

🗓️ Monday 26 October | 16:00–17:30 (Armenia time) | ASEAN Pavilion

More member features to come! Follow IDFC to discover how our members are financing nature.

Last week in Bangkok at the 2026 The World Bank Group / International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, IDFC reinforced the pivotal role of Public Development Banks (PDBs) in translating global climate ambition into local execution.

On the road to #COP31 in Antalya, IDFC Chairman eneral Nicolas Picchiottino, and Head of Climate and Development Finance Laura Sabogal Reyes engaged with international partners, multilateral development banks, and policymakers to advance the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap 2026 across its three core pillars:

🌍 Supporting Country-Led Delivery & Platforms (Pillar 1)
Participated in strategic roundtables co-hosted with E3G, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20), and the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action to align transition finance with national priorities.

🤝 Mobilising Capital & De-Risking Investments (Pillar 2)
Advanced the operationalisation of the Catalytic Guarantee Facility (CGF) and the PDB Guarantee Hub alongside MIGA and Finance In Common (FiCS) to scale private capital participation.

🏦 Strengthening Prudential Regulation & Enabling Environments (Pillar 3)
Contributed to high-level discussions on prudential regulation, private capital mobilisation, and the enabling frameworks needed to unlock the full financing potential of PDBs.

These exchanges were enriched by the active participation of IDFC member institutions at the highest leadership level, including Stella Rusine Ntez, CEO of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) PLC, and Alicia Montalvo, Executive Vice President of CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe-, at the Pact for Prosperity, People and the Planet (4P) event on prudential regulation, as well as Dr Reynaldi Hermansjah, President Director of PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero), at the event organised with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)-CETEx (Centre for Economic Transition Expertise).

Their engagement underscored the collective leadership of IDFC members in advancing reforms that can strengthen PDBs' financing capacity and accelerate climate investment.

These discussions also helped inform the IDFC Annual Meeting on 18 October in Bangkok, where members consolidated their collective contributions ahead of COP31 and welcomed new institutions into the Club.

🌍 From climate ambition to investment delivery: IDFC at the Quy Nhon Dialogue!

At the inaugural Quy Nhon Dialogue on Climate and Transitions (10–11 October 2026) in Viet Nam, IDFC and @FinanceInCommon joined global partners to tackle a core challenge: How can countries invest ransformation while navigating growing debt pressures, constrained fiscal space, and rising climate risks?

Organised by RENCONTRES DU VIETNAM, hosted by ICISE Quy Nhon, and supported by @AFD_France as a founding partner, under the high patronage of the Gia Lai Province and the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, the Dialogue brought together global leaders to explore energy security, financial transformation, and climate resilience.

This question was central to the plenary on Reconfigurations of Transition Financing, featuring:
- Rafael Leão, Brazil's Ministry of Finance
- Dr. Sam Koojo, Uganda's Ministry of Finance & Co-Chair of the Country Platforms Hub
- Dorah Modise, South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission & Co-Chair of the Country Platforms Hub
- Nicolas Picchiottino, Secretary General of IDFC
- @RiouxRemy, Chairman of Finance in Common

Moderated by Laura Sabogal Reyes, Head of Climate and Development Finance at IDFC and FiCS, the discussion highlighted the critical role of national and regional public development banks in translating national priorities into investment delivery.

Three key priorities emerged:
- Integrating climate and nature into macroeconomic and fiscal planning, recognizing both the costs of inaction and the economic benefits of resilience.
- Connecting national strategies with concrete investment pipelines, through country-led platforms, project preparation, and stronger domestic institutional capacities.
- Strengthening cooperation among national, regional, and multilateral development banks, ensuring guarantees, blended finance, and other instruments address real investment barriers.

💡 Financial innovation must serve investment strategy, not the other way around.

Our sincere thanks to the Government of Viet Nam for its generous hospitality and to all organisers and partners for making this exchange possible.

These exchanges reinforce our #IDFCRoadToCOP, building momentum toward COP17 Armenia in Yerevan and the IDFC Pavilion at COP31 Türkiye in Antalya, where IDFC members will advance concrete solutions for climate and nature finance.

From Quy Nhon to Antalya: moving from commitments to delivery!

#IDFCRoadToCOP #QuyNhonDialogue #ClimateFinance #PublicDevelopmentBanks #CountryPlatforms #IDFC

🗓️ COUNTDOWN TO COP17: IDFC heads to Yerevan for nature 🌿

Next week, IDFC will be in Yerevan, Armenia, for #COP17 with one message: Public Development Banks are where global biodiversity commitments become investment on the ground.

Nature is at the heart of IDFC’s climate te synergies are a core focus of the third pillar of the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap: strengthening the enabling environment for climate investment. In the coming weeks, we’ll share member features with our IDFC biodiversity champions, showing how Public Development Banks are turning commitments into nature-positive investment on the ground.

We are delighted to attend with a high-level delegation from several IDFC member institutions: AFD - Agence Française de Développement BNDES CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW

👥 On the ground with us: our biodiversity expert Guylaine HOR will be present, as well as high-level representatives from our members: siloshini naidoo Audrey Rojkoff Kyosuke Inada Rodrigo Tosta Lina María Mondragón Artunduaga Christian Krämer Jürgen Kern.

Throughout COP17, IDFC will:
✅ share concrete solutions from members aligning their finance with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
✅ show how nature and climate finance go hand in hand
✅ host key sessions in the Blue Zone

And the conversation won’t stop in Yerevan: it will carry us all the way to #COP31 in Antalya.

📅 Our full side-event agenda is coming next!

#COP17 #BiodiversityFinance #PublicDevelopmentBanks #GBF #IDFCRoadToCOP31

🚀 Two productive days with IDFC members in Kigali

On 7–8 September, IDFC Sherpas gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, for the 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, hosted by @BRDbank and opened by its CEO, @stellarusine

With @turkiyecop31 and #COP17 approaching, ing shared priorities into concrete action through the 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, identifying priority deliverables, key milestones and member contributions for the months ahead. Joining the meeting online, Meral Murathan, Executive Vice-President of @TSKB_Turkiye, also provided an update on the COP31 Presidency’s priorities and upcoming milestones, helping connect IDFC’s Roadmap with the wider climate agenda towards Antalya.

Discussions also covered the next phase of the #IDFCFacility, and IDFC’s engagement with @FinanceInCommon.

The meeting also featured insights from @HortenseMudenge, CEO of @Kigali_IFC, on Rwanda’s journey as a leading international financial centre.

🙏 A warm thank you to BRD, Isaac Rugamba, and the whole team for their generous hospitality and excellent organization, and to all Sherpas for the rich exchanges and strong engagement.

👉 Stay tuned for more insights from the Sherpa Meeting in our next post.

RT @devex: 5 years in, @FinanceInCommon is moving from "convening" to "delivering."

With $23T in assets across 540+ PDBs, the focus is now…

🚀 Kicking off the year and setting IDFC’s priorities

On 5–6 February 2026, IDFC Sherpas (representatives of each IDFC member development bank) met in Tokyo 🇯🇵 to define the Club’s priorities and activities for the year ahead. The meeting was hosted by @jica_direct_en and opened ident of JICA.

Over two days of exchanges, discussions focused on IDFC’s priorities for 2026, the next phase of the IDFC Facility, and progress across the Club’s Working Groups, including Climate Finance, C4D, SDG Alignment, Biodiversity, and Gender Equality.

Sherpas also benefited from high-level insights from Bambang Brodjonegoro, Dean of the @ADBInstitute and former Indonesia’s Minister of Finance, and Tetsushi Sonobe, Professor at the @GRIPS_English, on the role of public development banks in the current global context, as well as from a dedicated workshop led by Salvatore Serravalle (@e3g) on Rules, Regulations and Standards.

🙏 A warm thank you to JICA for their hospitality and excellent organization, and to all Sherpas for the rich exchanges and strong engagement.

Looking forward to building on this momentum throughout 2026!

⏳ 10 years after the Paris Agreement, what’s next for Public Development Banks?

As we mark a decade since COP21, Public Development Banks have made real progress on climate action, but rising economic and political pressures call for new momentum and stronger coordination.

On her with @climatepolicy, @e3g , @I4CE_, and @FinanceinCommon, will bring the global PDB community together for a high-level workshop on the next decade of climate action.

During the workshop, participants will:
· take stock of key learnings and current challenges
· identify priority actions for the years ahead
· explore practical tools and available support programs
· strengthen coordination across the PDB community

📅 January 27 | 🕒 15:00 (UTC+1, Paris time)
👉 Join the discussion and register here:
climatepolicyinitiative.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Speakers:
Neil Chin, @NPicchiottino, Viktor Ahlgren, Sarah Bendahou, @APataud, Margot de Groot van Embden, Blaise Gonda, Barbara Buchner

🗞 NEWSLETTER #COP30IDFC Highlights are now live here: lnkd.in/epRBgCqR

As #COP30 comes to a close, we celebrate two remarkable weeks at the IDFC Pavilion.

Over the past two weeks:
✅ 30+ events hosted
🤝 Contributions from 9+ IDFC members & numerous partners
🎤 200+ panelists sharing their expertise and visions

Topics covered included:
📈 Carbon markets
💰 Climate finance
⚡ Energy transition
🧭 Country platforms
🌿 Nature & biodiversity
… and much more!

👏 A huge thank you to all the side-event organizers and participants who made this possible.

🌿 After more than 30 inspiring and insightful events at the #COP30IDFC Pavilion, we were proud to close our agenda this morning with a session dedicated to one of the most crucial topics of our time: 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀.

💡 Key takeaways:
- 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆. Institutions are increasingly equipped with tools and guidelines to understand hazards and exposure at portfolio level — a critical foundation before designing strategies or resilience measures.
- 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. Fragmented approaches will not meet the scale of the challenge.
- 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲-𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲-𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀-𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Effective technical assistance must start simple, build gradually, and support institutions in embedding resilience into everyday decision-making.

🙏 A warm thank you to the organizers Mainstreaming Climate in Financial Institutions and AFAC, as well as to the speakers for their valuable insights.

▶️ The full replay will be available soon on our COP30 IDFC landing page: idfc.org/cop30idfc

#COP30 #PDBs #ClimateFinance #ClimateAdaptation

Energy, ambition, and real solutions at the #COP30IDFC Pavilion today.

From transformational finance to ocean protection, Nature based Solutions for adaptation, and resilient agrifood systems: today proved how systemic solutions can reshape climate action. 🚀🌿🌊

👉 Explore the sessions replays here: youtube.com/watch?v=7s7XGt…

Thanks to the organizers and speakers for bringing depth, expertise, and concrete solutions to the table.

@GruppoCDP @bndes @MainstreamClim @WWF @unepwcmc

🌿 For the first COP ever held in Amazonia, giving a voice to Amazonian communities was essential.

Yesterday at the IDFC Pavilion, @AFD_en, @Int_IDEA, and @DeliberaBrasil brought those voices forward through the event “How can climate citizen assemblies leverage the impacts of nce on the resilience of the local communities in Amazonia?”

Amazonian communities are on the front line of climate impacts, yet often face limited access to climate finance, fragmented support, and decision-making processes that don’t fully reflect local realities.

💡 By gathering randomly selected residents from Magalhães Barata and Barcarena (two municipalities of Pará), the assemblies enabled communities to define their own priorities for climate policies and financing, grounded in their daily challenges and opportunities.

📌 What emerged:
- Clear recommendations to improve access, transparency, and responsiveness of climate finance
- Locally defined priorities for adaptation, resilience, and sustainable development
- Concrete opportunities for public development banks and philanthropic foundations to act together
- A shared call for more inclusive, community-driven climate governance in the Amazon

▶️ Rewatch the full replay here: youtube.com/live/SXGjqTKzk…

Climate finance isn’t only about mobilizing capital, it’s about enabling institutions to use that capital well 💸
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Yesterday at the UNFCCC Pavilion at #COP30, FiCS and @IDFC_Network hosted a session highlighting that systemic coordination in aligning national and international to unlocking the full potential of public development banks in scaling climate-smart, inclusive finance. 📈

What we explored:
📌 TA is the backbone of successful projects—yet often overlooked in favor of new financial instruments
🌐 South-South peer learning is in high demand, shifting away from traditional North-South knowledge transfer
🛠️ Innovative models like D-Lab (DBSA) and PDB Guarantee Hub (NDC Partnership) are scaling impact through replication and guarantees.
💡 Gender-lens investing and long-term capacity building drive sustainable change.

The session also introduced the 𝗙𝗶𝗖𝗦 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗯, a new platform designed to connect PDBs with global TA providers, harmonize knowledge, and elevate TACB within the international financial architecture.

🔗 Explore the FiCS TA Hub: financeincommon.org/technical-assi…

A warm thank you to all speakers and partners who contributed to this important conversation.

🚀 Formal launch today of the position paper “𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀”

Supported by a unique initiative bringing together  𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱 (IDFC, @FinanceInCommon, PRI, @UNEP_FI, @MainstreamClim) under a shared vision.

💬 Across the financial system, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿: transformational finance must be further 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱.

This high-quality finance goes beyond single projects. It aims to trigger shifts in markets, institutions, policies, and behaviors, accelerating country-driven, low-emission, climate-resilient development at a systemic level by addressing key barriers and corresponding barriers and seizing the opportunities.

In essence, Transformational Finance for Climate enables the development and implementation of a 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗳𝗼𝗿-𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, echoing the calls emerging from COP30 discussions on the NCQG and the implementation of 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝟮.𝟭(𝗰).

📰 Read the press release: idfc.org/wp-content/upl…
➡️ And the position paper: idfc.org/wp-content/upl…

#COP30IDFC #COP30 #ClimateFinance #PDBs #SustainableFinance

🗓️ A new week begins at #COP30IDFC!
The momentum continues at the IDFC Pavilion. Explore the Week 2 agenda and join us for more discussions shaping the future of sustainable finance.

📍 Pavilion PV-B43, Blue Zone
💻 Livestream and full agenda: idfc.org/cop30idfc

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