International Development Finance Club

🗓️ What's on at the IDFC Pavilion at #COP31

IDFC will be in Antalya for COP31, along side our Turkish member @TSKB, hosting a full schedule of events that showcase the shift from commitments to delivery.

COP31 is a key milestone in the arc from climate finance ambition towards operational climate delivery. Public Development Banks can play a key role in this arc as long-term implementation partners. The COP31 Presidency set measurable global targets for 2035 under its Action Agenda, providing a clear benchmark for implementation. Over 2026, IDFC has been supporting its 29 members in how they contribute, across three pillars:

🟡 Supporting country-led climate investment and implementation
🟢 Operationalising climate finance solutions through capital mobilisation & risk sharing
🔴 Strengthening the enabling environment for climate investment

At the IDFC Pavilion, we will share members' experiences from operationalising these three workstreams: country platforms turning national strategies into bankable projects, guarantees working as a system rather than deal by deal, and urban climate investment moving from municipal priorities to finance and more.

👇See our full programme below and join us at the IDFC Pavilion (C535, Blue Zone) or online: youtube.com/channel/UCwD_Q…

#IDFCRoadToCOP31 #PublicDevelopmentBanks #ClimateFinance #SustainableDevelopment

🌍 From commitment to implementation: our first #COP17 member feature puts the spotlight on @AFD_en .

During #COP17, we’re showcasing how IDFC members are turning biodiversity commitments into concrete action. Here are two AFD projects already making a difference:

- Ecuador: a €92M loan supporting public policy for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, strengthening governance and the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.

- DR Congo: €40M in loans and €10M in grants to make Boma city more resilient, using nature-based solutions such as revegetation, flood management and ecological corridors for its 440,000 residents.

These projects show how public development banks put nature at the heart of how they invest, in line with Pillar 3 of the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap.

📍 Meet AFD at COP17. Audrey Rojkoff, Head of the Climate and Nature Division, speaks at the ADB side event “From Commitment to Capital: Scaling Nature-Positive Investment through the ADB–EU Partnership in the Nature Solutions Finance Hub”.

🗓️ Monday 26 October | 16:00–17:30 (Armenia time) | ASEAN Pavilion

More member features to come! Follow IDFC to discover how our members are financing nature.

Last week in Bangkok at the 2026 The World Bank Group / International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, IDFC reinforced the pivotal role of Public Development Banks (PDBs) in translating global climate ambition into local execution.

On the road to #COP31 in Antalya, IDFC Chairman Serge EKUE, Secretary General Nicolas Picchiottino, and Head of Climate and Development Finance Laura Sabogal Reyes engaged with international partners, multilateral development banks, and policymakers to advance the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap 2026 across its three core pillars:

🌍 Supporting Country-Led Delivery & Platforms (Pillar 1)
Participated in strategic roundtables co-hosted with E3G, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20), and the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action to align transition finance with national priorities.

🤝 Mobilising Capital & De-Risking Investments (Pillar 2)
Advanced the operationalisation of the Catalytic Guarantee Facility (CGF) and the PDB Guarantee Hub alongside MIGA and Finance In Common (FiCS) to scale private capital participation.

🏦 Strengthening Prudential Regulation & Enabling Environments (Pillar 3)
Contributed to high-level discussions on prudential regulation, private capital mobilisation, and the enabling frameworks needed to unlock the full financing potential of PDBs.

These exchanges were enriched by the active participation of IDFC member institutions at the highest leadership level, including Stella Rusine Ntez, CEO of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) PLC, and Alicia Montalvo, Executive Vice President of CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe-, at the Pact for Prosperity, People and the Planet (4P) event on prudential regulation, as well as Dr Reynaldi Hermansjah, President Director of PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero), at the event organised with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)-CETEx (Centre for Economic Transition Expertise).

Their engagement underscored the collective leadership of IDFC members in advancing reforms that can strengthen PDBs' financing capacity and accelerate climate investment.

These discussions also helped inform the IDFC Annual Meeting on 18 October in Bangkok, where members consolidated their collective contributions ahead of COP31 and welcomed new institutions into the Club.

🌍 From climate ambition to investment delivery: IDFC at the Quy Nhon Dialogue!

At the inaugural Quy Nhon Dialogue on Climate and Transitions (10–11 October 2026) in Viet Nam, IDFC and @FinanceInCommon joined global partners to tackle a core challenge: How can countries invest in long-term economic transformation while navigating growing debt pressures, constrained fiscal space, and rising climate risks?

Organised by RENCONTRES DU VIETNAM, hosted by ICISE Quy Nhon, and supported by @AFD_France as a founding partner, under the high patronage of the Gia Lai Province and the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, the Dialogue brought together global leaders to explore energy security, financial transformation, and climate resilience.

This question was central to the plenary on Reconfigurations of Transition Financing, featuring:
- Rafael Leão, Brazil's Ministry of Finance
- Dr. Sam Koojo, Uganda's Ministry of Finance & Co-Chair of the Country Platforms Hub
- Dorah Modise, South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission & Co-Chair of the Country Platforms Hub
- Nicolas Picchiottino, Secretary General of IDFC
- @RiouxRemy, Chairman of Finance in Common

Moderated by Laura Sabogal Reyes, Head of Climate and Development Finance at IDFC and FiCS, the discussion highlighted the critical role of national and regional public development banks in translating national priorities into investment delivery.

Three key priorities emerged:
- Integrating climate and nature into macroeconomic and fiscal planning, recognizing both the costs of inaction and the economic benefits of resilience.
- Connecting national strategies with concrete investment pipelines, through country-led platforms, project preparation, and stronger domestic institutional capacities.
- Strengthening cooperation among national, regional, and multilateral development banks, ensuring guarantees, blended finance, and other instruments address real investment barriers.

💡 Financial innovation must serve investment strategy, not the other way around.

Our sincere thanks to the Government of Viet Nam for its generous hospitality and to all organisers and partners for making this exchange possible.

These exchanges reinforce our #IDFCRoadToCOP, building momentum toward COP17 Armenia in Yerevan and the IDFC Pavilion at COP31 Türkiye in Antalya, where IDFC members will advance concrete solutions for climate and nature finance.

From Quy Nhon to Antalya: moving from commitments to delivery!

#IDFCRoadToCOP #QuyNhonDialogue #ClimateFinance #PublicDevelopmentBanks #CountryPlatforms #IDFC

🗓️ COUNTDOWN TO COP17: IDFC heads to Yerevan for nature 🌿

Next week, IDFC will be in Yerevan, Armenia, for #COP17 with one message: Public Development Banks are where global biodiversity commitments become investment on the ground.

Nature is at the heart of IDFC’s climate action and nature–climate synergies are a core focus of the third pillar of the IDFC Climate Delivery Roadmap: strengthening the enabling environment for climate investment. In the coming weeks, we’ll share member features with our IDFC biodiversity champions, showing how Public Development Banks are turning commitments into nature-positive investment on the ground.

We are delighted to attend with a high-level delegation from several IDFC member institutions: AFD - Agence Française de Développement BNDES CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW

👥 On the ground with us: our biodiversity expert Guylaine HOR will be present, as well as high-level representatives from our members: siloshini naidoo Audrey Rojkoff Kyosuke Inada Rodrigo Tosta Lina María Mondragón Artunduaga Christian Krämer Jürgen Kern.

Throughout COP17, IDFC will:
✅ share concrete solutions from members aligning their finance with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
✅ show how nature and climate finance go hand in hand
✅ host key sessions in the Blue Zone

And the conversation won’t stop in Yerevan: it will carry us all the way to #COP31 in Antalya.

📅 Our full side-event agenda is coming next!

#COP17 #BiodiversityFinance #PublicDevelopmentBanks #GBF #IDFCRoadToCOP31