International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/International Development Association (World Bank)

Metric	Summary
Promotion of green finance	Paris aligned – The Bank is promoting green finance in banks, local and national institutions, insurers and regulators with a number of potentially transformational initiatives.
Fossil to non-fossil energy finance ratio and scaling up climate finance	Unaligned – For every $1 the IBRD & IDA provide to fossil fuels, $1.5 &  $1.3 goes to renewables & $1 & $2.8 goes to T&D respectively, between 2016-2019.
Nature based solutions	Some progress – Promotion of nature based solutions and climate-smart agriculture, no commitment to net-zero deforestation.
Climate risk, resilience, and adaptation	Paris aligned – Screens all projects for climate risk; climate resilience strategy includes systemic country view; relatively high levels of adaptation finance.
Overarching climate strategy	Some progress – The strategy includes both mitigation and adaptation, and also acknowledges that climate is a threat to poverty reduction. Focus is now needed on implementation in all parts of the Bank’s activities, including technical assistance, and specific incorporation of Paris Agreement alignment and “do-no-harm” principle.
Integration of climate mitigation and resilience in key sectoral strategies	Some progress – Overall there is some integration of climate mitigation and risks in the sectoral strategies. Clear references to the Paris Agreement are missing throughout the sectoral strategies. Resilience in Water and Energy sector are well addressed.
Institutional leadership	Some progress – Leadership in a number of areas such as supporting finance ministries and evidence of thought leadership.
Energy access and fuel poverty	Some progress – Access to basic and modern energy is integrated into energy policy, but the Bank has no specific access target, does not specifically adhere to Multi-Tier Framework’s definition of access and progress monitoring is lacking.
Energy efficiency strategy, standards and investment	Unaligned – Few energy efficiency standards in key sectors, with transport being the only exception.
Fossil fuel exclusion policies	Some progress – There is near complete exclusion of coal and upstream oil and gas.
Greenhouse gas accounting and reduction	Some progress – Portfolio-level GHG tracking is in the process of being implemented but no target for peaking or reducing GHGs has been set.
Shadow carbon pricing	Paris aligned – Carbon prices align with the High-level Commission on Carbon Price & Scope 3 emissions included where required.
Country level work	Some progress – New Country Climate Development Reports will inform Country Partnership Frameworks. There is potential for decarbonisation pathway development and NDC updates.
Technical assistance for implementing Paris goals	Some progress – World Bank Group manages the NDC Support Facility Trust Fund, which also supports the NDC Partnership. However, the Bank uses technical assistance to support fossil fuel sectors.
Transparency of climate finance data	Some progress – Transparency of financial intermediary lending needs improving.

Recommendations

• The World Bank Group should disclose more detailed information on sub-projects financed by financial intermediaries (particularly at IFC) and introduce due diligence to ensure that intermediaries are not investing in areas the World Bank has excluded e.g. coal and upstream oil and gas. WBG should also work with intermediaries on decarbonisation plans. 
• WBG should extend fossil fuel exclusion policies to oil and gas at all stages of the value chain.
• WBG should look to the experience of the other MDBs and how they incorporate the Avoid-Shift-Improve framework into their transport lending.  

Leadership area

The World Bank’s leads in technical assistance to implement NDCs. Managed by the Bank, the NDC Support Facility Trust supports the NDC Partnership, an international initiative to support action on the NDCs which is backed by various MDBs, including ADB, and many country participants. This is an example of real global leadership from the World Bank on this issue. Furthermore, the Climate Action Enhancement Package, a new offering of the NDC Partnership, has a goal of enhancing NDC ambition as well as implementation.