EIB Group Launches Global Green Checker to Simplify Access to Climate Finance Beyond Europe

EIB Group Launches Global Green Checker to Simplify Access to Climate Finance Beyond Europe

(IN BRIEF) The European Investment Bank Group has expanded its Green Checker tool globally, enabling countries beyond the EU to identify and assess green investment opportunities. Launched at COP30 in Brazil, the platform simplifies climate eligibility assessments for projects and helps businesses, banks, and public bodies align with EU and EIB standards. As part of the EU’s Global Gateway initiative, the tool promotes sustainable financing across regions including North Africa, the Middle East, and the Western Balkans. This move supports the EIB’s broader mission to accelerate green investment, strengthen energy resilience, and foster inclusive, sustainable growth worldwide.

(PRESS RELEASE) LUXEMBOURG, 11-Nov-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group has taken its digital Green Checker tool global, extending access beyond the European Union to support green investment across regions including North Africa, the Middle East, the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Neighbourhood. The expansion, announced at the UN COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, enables businesses, public institutions, and financial intermediaries worldwide to easily identify and assess projects eligible for climate and environmental financing.

The Green Checker, part of the EIB Group’s broader Global Gateway Investment Agenda, is a free and publicly available online tool that helps users determine a project’s environmental impact, estimate potential climate benefits such as energy savings and emissions reductions, and ensure alignment with EU Taxonomy and EIB climate standards. Initially designed for financial institutions such as banks and national promotional bodies, the tool is now open to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and local public authorities seeking access to green finance.

“The Green Checker is a transformative tool,” said EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle. “It helps companies assess whether their projects meet climate and environmental criteria and determine their eligibility for EIB financing through our partner banks. We are now broadening its scope to include countries beyond Europe, accelerating climate investments globally. The Green Checker is an instrument to simplify the assessment of climate projects, in particular for SMEs.”

The upgraded version features simplified inputs, region-specific parameters, and enhanced accessibility to accommodate varied markets and local conditions. In addition to the Green Checker, EIB Advisory is developing complementary web-based tools, including a Decarbonisation Guide being rolled out in North Macedonia and Morocco, to help financial institutions and businesses implement climate-aligned strategies.

Through initiatives like the Green Checker and Global Gateway, the EIB Group aims to catalyse sustainable investment worldwide. The Global Gateway strategy seeks to mobilise up to €300 billion between 2021 and 2027 to promote smart, clean, and secure infrastructure and strengthen health, education, and research systems through the collective effort of EU institutions, Member States, and private partners.

The Green Checker’s global rollout underscores the EIB Group’s commitment to simplifying access to green finance, helping economies adapt to climate change, and supporting projects that promote environmental sustainability, innovation, and resilience.

Background information

The European Investment Bank (ElB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union, owned by its Member States. The EIB finances investments in eight core priorities that support EU policy objectives: climate action and the environment, digitalisation and technological innovation, security and defence, cohesion, agriculture and the bioeconomy, social infrastructure, a stronger Europe in a more peaceful and prosperous world and Europe’s capital markets union.

The EIB Group, which also includes the European Investment Fund (EIF), signed nearly €89 billion in new financing for over 900 high-impact projects in 2024, boosting Europe’s competitiveness and security.

Approximately half of the EIB’s financing within the EU targets cohesion regions, where per-capita income is below the EU average, while almost 60% of annual EIB Group investments support climate action and environmental sustainability.

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About EIB Global

EIB Global is the EIB Group’s specialised arm dedicated to increasing the impact of international partnerships and development finance.  EIB Global is designed to foster strong, focused partnership within Team Europe, alongside fellow development finance institutions, and civil society. EIB Global brings the Group closer to local people, companies and institutions through our offices across the world.

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SOURCE: European Investment Bank