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On International Youth Day, we're celebrating the 2026 CIF Youth Fellows. 👏 They spent the year building skills, working directly inside all six of our multilateral development bank partners. They navigated complex institutional systems, led client and stakeholder engagement, worked across multicultural teams, and learned about blended finance, concessional funding, and more. Swipe ➡️ To see their year in pictures ✨✨✨ This year's #InternationalYouthDay theme, "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations," is about recognizing that young people everywhere are ready to lead given the opportunity. This is exactly what the CIF Youth Fellowship set out to do: give young professionals a chance to work on CIF-financed projects in their countries to gain practical experience to make a meaningful impact. We're so proud of our CIF Youth Fellows and can't wait to see what they do next: Gifty Baidoo, Gloria Serembushin Hombunaka, Simal Ozyoruk, Emirhan Tekin, Lucas da Mata, Vivaan Madhok. Read their story ➡️ https://lnkd.in/egpzhxti African Development Bank Group, Asian Development Bank (ADB), EBRD, Inter-American Development Bank, The World Bank Group including IFC - International Finance Corporation

Clean energy investments in cities deliver far more than emissions cuts. From city heating networks in Kazakhstan to metro systems in Colombia, our Clean Technology Fund has been financing clean energy in cities since 2008. $6.9 billion in CTF financing has unlocked $88.6 billion in co-financing, including $30.2 billion from the private sector, a ratio of more than $1:$13. The results go well beyond emissions. 🚍 In Colombia, a CTF-supported public transport program cut average travel times in Armenia and Santa Marta by roughly a third: fewer hours lost to commuting, cleaner air for millions. 🔥 In Kazakhstan, upgrades to aging city heating networks delivered over 158 GWh in annual energy savings, reducing heat losses and improving reliability for urban households. 🏢 In Vietnam, replacing outdated electricity infrastructure in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City generated 449 GWh in annual energy savings. CTF was designed to deploy low-carbon technology, and these results show what those investments deliver on the ground. Check out our study ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/er2uhR59

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we're sharing a story from the Congo Basin. 💫" Nature is us and we are nature," says Diel Mochire, an Indigenous leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "It's our supermarket, it's our hospital, it's our school. It's everything for Indigenous Peoples." For years, Indigenous Pygmy communities in DRC had no legal recognition of the land they've stewarded for generations. Through CIF's Dedicated Grants Mechanism, $5.3 million in direct finance empowered communities like Mochire's to prioritize how resources are used. They used it to fund capacity building, create Indigenous networks, and strengthen participation in forest governance.  Organizing the community helped build momentum for DRC's landmark 2022 Land Law, the first in the country's history to formally recognize the rights and territories of Indigenous Pygmy peoples. "The DGM played a fundamental and crucial role in the reforms process," Mochire says. "We are pleased, because the territories where we live have been recognized by the Land Law." The law also helped bridge long-standing tensions between Pygmy and Bantu communities. As Mochire puts it: "Today they are working with a really harmonious social cohesion and coexistence." Hear from Diel Mochire and our partners in the DRC ➡️ https://lnkd.in/etrxxWcu

Closing the adaptation finance gap requires catalytic finance that crowds in private capital. But we know this. The question is: what evidence do we have that it works? Our Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) set out to answer that, drawing on experience across 31 countries. A Results Deep Dive looks at what partnering with the private sector actually delivered for developing countries building resilience. A few examples: 💡 In Nepal and Mozambique, concessional finance paired with private investment catalyzed large-scale climate-resilient energy infrastructure. 💧 In Niger, it proved the commercial viability of drip irrigation technology. ⚙️ In Tajikistan, it put climate-adaptive technologies directly into the hands of small businesses and households. What made this work: early private sector engagement, flexible financing instruments, and concessional capital deployed to demonstrate viability and signal market readiness. These lessons are now built into our ARISE investment program, which puts private sector engagement at the center of investment plan design from the outset. Read the full Results Deep Dive ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eXiActve

Congratulations to Diego Mesa, who has just been announced as the new CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). We are delighted to welcome Diego to the community of multilateral climate funds at a time of growing momentum for collaboration. As sister funds, the Adaptation Fund, CIF, Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), GEF, and Green Climate Fund are increasingly joining forces to drive impact, mobilize finance, and support countries' climate ambitions. With COP31 on the horizon, we look forward to working together to deliver more than any one institution can achieve alone.

Nature is fundamental to resilience. By restoring forests, mangroves, wetlands, and watersheds, countries are reducing flood and landslide risks and helping communities adapt to a changing climate through nature-based solutions that deliver real protection and long-term resilience. Through our Nature, People & Climate (NPC) Program, countries are investing in protecting communities from climate shocks and strengthening the ecosystems people rely on every day. Discover our investments in nature: https://lnkd.in/eJchZfBW

Public and private investment can be complementary forces in mobilizing additional climate finance. Concessional finance absorbs early risk in uncertain markets, creating the conditions for private capital to step in and scale successful projects. That's exactly what happened with renewable energy, once prohibitively expensive, now outcompeting carbon-based energy sources on cost. Since 2008, $6.9 billion in our Clean Technology Fund financing has unlocked $88.6 billion in co-financing, including $30.2 billion from the private sector. We're prioritizing mobilizing private sector investment across our energy, nature and resilience programs, through country-led investment plans and at project level: ▶️ Kenya's $35.66 million investment plan under our nature program includes a "Nature Ventures" pillar to spur private investment in ecotourism, agro-enterprises, and ecosystem restoration. ▶️ Our next generation resilience program, ARISE, includes a "Private Sector Set-Aside" to draw investors into adaptation projects and develop new products and services. ▶️ Our Industry Decarbonization Program requires at least half of country investment plan funding to go to private sector projects. Mexico’s recently endorsed $250 million investment plan is expected to draw in $1.2 billion from private investors. "Concessional finance is used to attract private capital rather than replace it. This means it targets market gaps; public resources are directed only where commercial financing is not yet available," says César Vives Flores, of Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. CIF's approach to private sector mobilization is anchored in country priorities: investing in solutions that create jobs, strengthen domestic markets, and advance government development goals. See cif.org for more.

What happens when the world's largest multilateral climate funds measure their impact together? For the first time, the Adaptation Fund, CIF, the Global Environment Facility, and the Green Climate Fund have released a joint results report, aggregating results against a shared set of indicators across mitigation, adaptation, energy and technology, and nature. The combined numbers: $34 billion in approved financing and an estimated $176.2 billion in co-financing. Each fund has a distinct mandate and its own strengths. But the results make one thing clear: together, we are making an impact and our joint efforts reduce emissions, support vulnerable communities as they build resilience, advance clean technology, and protect biodiversity. Last year, the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) joined the partnership, expanding our partnership's collective reach. Read the full report ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/e_ean5mJ

Private capital integration is essential. Scale and sustainability depend on embedding private-sector financing into country investment strategies. CIF uses catalytic, concessional resources to lower risk, crowd in, and mobilize private investment at scale. In a constrained fiscal environment, we know that every public dollar must work harder. The question is how much additional investment each public dollar can unlock. This is what we are doing: In January 2025, CIF became the first multilateral climate fund to raise capital on the open market, issuing a $500 million bond on the London Stock Exchange. ⚡ Since 2008, CIF's Clean Technology Fund $6.9 billion in approved funding, mobilizing $88.6 billion in co-financing, including $30.2 billion directly from the private sector. 🐆 Kenya's $35.66 million Nature, People and Climate investment plan includes a "Nature Ventures" pillar built to attract private investment in ecotourism, agro-enterprises, and ecosystem restoration. 🪙 ARISE, CIF's next-generation resilience investment program has 40% of its funding reserved specifically to draw in private sector players from the onset and design blended investments. The private sector is not a monolith. We work with institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, philanthropies, SMEs, local businesses, and commercial banks, matching the right instrument to the right partner. See cif.org Kevin Carlucci

For our country partners, #forests and #economies are deeply intertwined. Under CIF's Nature, People and Climate Program, partner countries are making forest protection, nature restoration, and economic growth central to their investment plans. With over $166 million in CIF catalytic finance endorsed, countries are expected to mobilize over $2.13 billion in co-financing — protecting biodiversity, creating jobs, and strengthening local economies. Countries are also making private sector investment key to unlocking this additional finance, embedding it directly into their investment plans. From Ethiopia's coffee forests to Fiji's mangroves, the Dominican Republic's watersheds to Rwanda's wetlands: these investment plans make the case that protecting nature means strengthening economies. Explore their stories 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJchZfBW