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The International Finance Corporation has an opportunity to improve standards across the financial sector, as it reviews its safeguards policy. Civil society groups are calling for new safeguards on financial intermediaries, climate, and gender.
The IMF’s dedicated climate work is recent, but its structure, policies and practices have had climate impacts since its founding. Learn more and take action using this civil society guide.
Multilateral development banks claim alignment with climate goals, yet continue backing high-risk energy pathways. This briefing outlines why false solutions undermine a just transition and what needs to change in public finance.
With major policy reviews underway across international financial institutions, 2026 presents a key opportunity to strengthen accountability, safeguards, and access to remedy for affected communities.
Recourse targets development finance as a means of influencing the wider investment community, financial flows and governments, to ensure inclusive, environmentally sustainable, socially just and pro-poor development.
