Carbon Footprint Report 2022
The EIB Group has seen carbon emissions increase in many areas since 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant decrease in emissions during 2020 and 2021. This effect is no longer present, as restrictions ended in 2022, resulting in a 125% increase in total gross emissions in 2022 compared with 2021, and a 36.4%4 decrease compared with the base year emissions (2018).
Education OVERVIEW 2023
This publication gives an overview of the European Investment Bank’s contribution for education. It details the Bank’s activities in the sector and highlights key projects. The stories, videos and case studies, illustrate how the Bank’s financing and advice help countries, regions and cities.
The EIB Climate Survey: Africa and the Middle East
The survey results came at a critical moment for Africa, following COP 27, where the central issues were finding more resources to mitigate global warming and adapting to its effects. A decisive agreement was also made on a new “loss and damage” fund for vulnerable countries severely hurt by climate disasters.
Read the full survey to discover how people in Africa view climate change’s impact on their livelihood.
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia and the Pacific: 2022 Compendium of Technologies and Enablers
This compendium of game-changing carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) concepts deals with four interesting carbon dioxide (CO2 ) capture technologies, five CO2 utilization technologies, one CO2 storage technology, and one enabler concept. The technologies presented are in various stages of development ranging from research and development to commercial deployment.
Eficiencia energética y energías renovables
Se pretende incursionar en el conocimiento del sector energético colombiano y específicamente en el tema de la eficiencia energética y las fuentes no convencionales de energía renovable, justificando la financiación con recursos de Findeter de la demanda creciente de proyectos de energía en el país. Junto con este estudio, la Jefatura de Inteligencia de Negocio proporcionará una base de datos para que el área comercial gestione el relacionamiento necesario
ADAPTING TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN AFRICA
The private sector has an indispensable role to play in advancing climate adaptation and resilience building. The need for private sector solutions to address climate change impacts is even more pronounced in Africa given its sizable needs for adaptation and the limited fiscal space of most African states to adapt and build resilience to climate and disaster risks.
AfCFTA What you need to know
ECA is pleased to launch this information booklet, titled AfCFTA: What You Need to Know, which asks sometimes highly technical questions about the AfCFTA and attempts to answer them in a language that is accurate but also non-technical and accessible at the same time. The overall objective of this information booklet is to help enhance awareness about the AfCFTA among the business community and the general public.
Emerging and Developing Countries: The Noose is Tightening
The double shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has generated an inflationary spike unprecedented in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock came to interrupt two decades of disinflation imported from China and other emerging and developing countries and more than a decade of ultra-accommodative monetary policies.
Development Finance Institutions: The need for bold actions to invest better
The report seeks to inform and anchor the discussion by providing the most up-to-date analysis of DFI and MDB investment and the private finance this investment has mobilised in developing countries since 2013. It examines in detail the investment portfolios of 12 DFIs and MDBs which together mobilised more than 70% of the private finance reported to the OECD for 2017–2018.
Financing for Development: Progress and Prospects 2018
The report begins its assessment of progress with an analysis of the global macroeconomic context, which sets the economic framework for implementation efforts. It explores financing for the five SDGs under in-depth review at the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable production and consumption patterns, and terrestrial ecosystems.