The European Investment Bank Financing Water and Climate Change Adaptation

Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences human societies and ecosystems. Increased frequency of extreme weather conditions has severe impacts on the availability and quality of freshwater resources, giving rise to water-related natural disasters including droughts and floods. As the largest source of loan finance to the global water sector to date, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has identified integrated water resource management and adaptation to climate change as key objectives for future lending operations.

This is one of the factsheets accompanying the brochures "The European Investment Bank Promoting Climate Action" and "The European Investment Bank in the water sector: financing water supply, sanitation and flood protection"