Carolyn Neunuebel

Nov 14, 2024 | wri.org | Natalia Alayza |Valerie Laxton |Carolyn Neunuebel |Joe Thwaites

MDB Climate Finance SeriesFor the past eight years, we have analyzed MDBs’ Joint Reports on Climate Finance and highlighted key takeaways behind the headlines. Editions include 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are major providers of the climate finance vulnerable nations need to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change.

Dec 1, 2023 | wri.org | Carolyn Neunuebel |Joe Thwaites |Valerie Laxton |Natalia Alayza

For the past seven years, we have analyzed MDBs’ Joint Reports on Climate Finance and highlighted key takeaways behind the headlines. See past editions here: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021). Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are major providers of public climate finance. This funding helps countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Sep 22, 2023 | wri.org | Natalia Alayza |Valerie Laxton |Carolyn Neunuebel

After years of pandemic, a global recession, and intensifying droughts, floods and other climate change impacts, many developing countries are operating on increasingly tight budgets and at risk of defaulting on loans. And while debt isn’t inherently bad, it’s becoming a bigger challenge by the day for developing countries, including those most vulnerable to climate change.

Apr 11, 2023 | wri.org | Carolyn Neunuebel

The pandemic sent governments worldwide into emergency mode, mobilizing resources against immediate disaster. While the entire world has contended with inflation and economic uncertainty since then, low-income countries (LICs) — defined as those eligible for interest-free loans from the IMF’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust — have had to do so while continuing to struggle against extreme poverty and operating from a limited revenue base.