IDB Climate Finance Dataset 2025

By Climate Change Solutions Division (VPS/CSD/CCS)

This dataset presents standardized, project-level climate finance data for Inter-American Development Bank, or IDB, operations approved in 2025 in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each row records the climate finance of one operation under a single objective — mitigation, adaptation or dual — and a single sector, so an operation spanning several sectors or objectives appears on more than one row. Alongside the operation's number, name, country, department and division, a row carries the instrument, the approval date, the total approved amount, the share of that amount counted as climate finance, and that share in US dollars. Climate finance figures are estimated according to the Joint MDB approach to climate finance tracking, the common methodology published in the annual Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance. Applying an agreed method makes the figures comparable across development banks, across IDB divisions and from one reporting year to the next. In 2025 the IDB approved US$7.7 billion in climate finance, 43% of its total approved volume: US$4.4 billion for mitigation, US$1.8 billion for adaptation and US$1.4 billion for dual-benefit activities. The data covers IDB operations only, not those of IDB Invest or IDB Lab. The workbook published alongside the table adds summary views of the same year by country, by category and by financial instrument.

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Metadata & use

Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/7vlrjz24
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation

Hernandez, Claudia, et al. (2026). IDB Climate Finance Dataset 2025. IDB Open Data. https://doi.org/10.60966/7vlrjz24

Published date 2026-09-02
Modified date 2026-09-02
Tags/Keywords Climate Change · Climate Finance · Adaptation · Mitigation · Dual · Resilience · Sustainability · Environmental Finance · Green Finance · Climate Action
Language
  1. English
In Series IDB Climate Finance Data
Temporal coverage 2025-2025
Country
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher
Inter-American Development Bank
Author
Hernandez, Claudia
Mendez, Anwar Enrique
Data collection type Administrative Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data
Data notes

What is this dataset?

Project-level climate finance for Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) operations approved in 2025 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the 2025 instalment of the IDB Climate Finance Data series, published annually since 2016.

What does a row represent?

One operation, under one climate objective — mitigation, adaptation or dual — and one sector. An operation spanning several sectors or objectives appears on several rows, and its total approved amount repeats unchanged on each of them, so a per-operation figure is a sum over that operation's rows.

What does it measure?

The share of each approved operation counted as climate finance, and that share in US dollars, split between mitigation, adaptation and dual-benefit activities. Each row also carries the instrument type, lending instrument, country, responsible department and division, and approval date.

How is climate finance defined and estimated?

Climate finance is the financial resources committed to development projects and components that enable activities mitigating or adapting to climate change. Amounts are estimated using the Joint MDB approach to climate finance tracking, set out in the annual Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance.

How should the percentage and amount columns be read?

The three percentage columns hold proportions of the approved amount between 0 and 1, so 0.0506 means 5.06%. Every monetary column is in US dollars. A row carries a sector only for its own objective, so the sector column of the other objective is blank.

Which countries are included?

The IDB's borrowing member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.

What time period does it cover?

Operations approved between 1 January and 31 December 2025.

What is not included?

IDB operations only. Financing by IDB Invest and IDB Lab, the other institutions of the IDB Group, is not part of this dataset.

In what format is it available?

A table that can be sorted, filtered and queried through the portal's DataStore API, and the source Excel workbook as a download. The workbook also holds summary views of 2025 by country, by category and by financial instrument.

Where can I find the other years of this series?

Under what licence is it published?

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The data may be shared and adapted, including for commercial purposes, with appropriate credit.

How do I cite this dataset?

Use the citation shown on this page, which carries the dataset's DOI.

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