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With a bold vision and substantial financing, the EIB Group is turning its climate ambitions into reality. The Climate Bank Roadmap, approved in November 2020, sets out our commitment to support the European Green Deal. It puts into action the decisions taken by the EIB Board of Directors in November 2019. The roadmap draws on constructive, strategic discussions with a broad range of stakeholders, and transforms the EIB Group into the European Union’s climate bank.

“Following the recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and accelerating evidence of both the climate and environmental emergencies, the need for the EIB Group as the EU climate bank to decisively support efforts to achieve the 1.5 degree temperature goal was evident. But we have done more than that. With the updated EIB Climate Strategy and the clear plans laid out for the next five years in our Climate Bank Roadmap, we have put in place a robust framework with ambitious climate action targeting 1.5 degrees, a renewed effort for increased adaptation, strong environmental action and a real focus on people.

Nancy Saich EIB chief climate change expert

It is people that are being already, and will be further, affected by climate change and environmental degradation. These impacts will be felt everywhere, but always fall hardest on the most vulnerable. The planet will ultimately be fine – but can humans continue to live here healthily and successfully? And can we make the urgent changes we need to make while leaving no one behind? This is why our Climate Bank Roadmap not only lays out how the EIB Group will address Paris alignment in all its activities – but also how we will support a just transition for all.”

In November 2020, the EIB Board of Directors, comprised of representatives from the EU Member States, approved the updated EIB Climate Strategy and the EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025. The roadmap was also approved by the EIF Board of Directors separately. It is the operational framework setting out how the EIB Group will support the objectives of the European Green Deal, the European Union’s strategy for battling climate change, which the European Commission presented in December 2019.

One of the biggest issues of our time, climate change is physically threatening our coastlines, soil, health and biodiversity, and posing severe challenges for people and their livelihoods. Combating the physical and transition risks of climate change, while also adapting to its consequences, requires huge amounts of investment in renewable energy generation, low-carbon transport and climate-smart agriculture, along with new ways of thinking about how to move to low-carbon, resilient and circular economies.