Addressing the most critical climate challenges across countries, economies and sectors
The Climate Support Facility provides an important platform for:
Collaborating on climate action
Strengthening global partnerships
Funding climate action as an agile vehicle
Facilitating donor coordination
Disseminating knowledge
CSF programs are structured around three focus areas or pillars that are interrelated and complimentary, each dedicated to tackle the most critical climate challenges of our time. The pillar on National Plans and Strategies supports country-driven climate action over the medium and long-term. Economy-wide Interventions help create the enabling environment for climate action, while Targeted Interventions drive swift transitions in priority sectors and systems and across vulnerable regions.
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National Plans & Strategies
National Plans & Strategies
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Medium and long-term goals for climate action
Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to set progressively ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resilience. Countries are also developing Long-Term Strategies (LTSs) that chart practical pathways to decarbonization by mid-century and can inform nearer-term NDCs. In supporting countries in these efforts, the NDC/LTS Program builds on the successes and lessons from the NDC Support Facility (NDC-SF)—the CSF’s predecessor trust fund. The program also contributes to the global NDC Partnership, of which the World Bank is an implementing partner and steering committee member.
The World Bank is also collaborating with other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to support countries develop their Long-Term Strategies through the MDB LTS Program.
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Economy-wide Interventions
Economy-wide Interventions
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Enabling environment for climate action
The CSF promotes approaches to implement and mainstream impactful climate action across all aspects of country policymaking and to drive catalytic action across entire economies. In partnership with the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Practice Group, its Whole of Economy Program funds grants in countries to bring about policy change at the macroeconomic level, across multiple economic sectors, by strengthening analytics and diagnostics and boosting country institutions and capacities to meet their climate goals.
The CSF also hosts the Secretariat of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, which works to mobilize finance ministries to mainstream climate into national planning and budgeting, aligning economic policies with the Paris Agreement and mobilizing resources for national climate action. Focusing on enhancing engagement, ownership and leadership, the Coalition engages national decision makers across member countries with the help of 26 institutional partners, including the World Bank.
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Targeted Interventions
Targeted Interventions
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Sectoral and systems climate transitions
The CSF also offers targeted initiatives across key topical areas and regions to accelerate climate action in developing countries.
The Green Recovery Initiative has enabled numerous countries to embed green recovery measures in policies and investments undertaken during the COVID-19 crisis. New tools and analytics developed through the program have assisted countries in designing and implementing effective development projects with climate at their core.
The new Global Methane Reduction Platform for Development (CH4D) is the World Bank's hub for accelerating methane reduction in agri-food, waste, and sanitation. It supports countries in scaling up successful methane reduction projects into national programs. Furthermore, it is facilitating early interventions in countries and regions where methane emissions are set to rise exponentially, by informing national policies and prioritization of investments; unlocking finance; and strengthening partnerships with the public, private, grassroots, and multilateral communities to address systemic challenges to methane.
The Western Balkans Plus Program supports countries in the Europe and Central Asia region to pursue their climate and green growth priorities despite the economic constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Initially established to put the six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia – on a sustainable development path, decarbonize their economies, and thereby aid their EU accession, the program has since expanded to other countries in the sub-region.