Publications overview

The 2022 Climate Bank Roadmap (CBR) progress report provides an update on the second year of implementation of the EIB Group’s CBR 2021-2025, which operationalised the EIB’s 2019 Climate Bank commitments. The report covers progress in 2022 across the four workstreams of the CBR, including on the first year of implementation of the EIB Climate Adaptation Plan and Group Paris Alignment of Counterparties (PATH) Framework. The report also covers EIB Group support to the REPowerEU plan, ...

Complaints are critical in ensuring an organisation and its activities are accountable to the beneficiaries it intends to serve, namely the small and medium size business for EIF. The independent Complaints Mechanism (CM) within the EIB Inspectorate General enables citizens, businesses and civil society to make their voices heard regarding EIB Group operations or activities. Complaints must be acknowledged, assessed and responded to. Within the framework of complaints received from external ...

The EIF has committed more than €9bn to the European economy in pursuit of public policy goals, and made a significant contribution to strengthening our strategic autonomy in key industries in the course of 2022. This financing will reach not only businesses that are struggling with the multitude of challenges and economic shocks that we are all facing, but also those innovative entrepreneurs, the champions that are shaping tomorrow. And it will serve to nurture the financing ecosystem ...

In Spain, capital delivered through specific debt and equity instruments via funds and banks, EU programmes and other initiatives have supported key sectors and industries, fostering investment and competitiveness. These are helping the country to achieve its objective of becoming Europe’s most entrepreneurial nation by 2030. This is a summary of EIF financing activities that supported 350,000 Spanish SMEs and mobilised close to €55 billion of financing for businesses.

2021 remained particularly challenging, also because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The EIB-CM registered 64 new cases, handled a total of 107 cases and closed 64 of them. With 71% the vast majority of cases open at year-end were registered in 2021. The EIB-CM managed to close several complex cases containing a range of environmental and social allegations such as the Curtis Biomass Power Generation Plant (Spain), Nepal Power System Expansion (Nepal), GEEREF/Akiira Geothermal Power Plant ...