Board of Governors 2021 – EIB at a glance
From clean energy in Estonia to drinking water in Lesotho or a better hospital in Croatia, the European Investment Bank improves millions of lives every year. We invest in Europe’s future by working hand in hand with the European Commission and many other institutions.
The EIB has been helping people around the world respond to the COVID-19 crisis by financing developers of vaccines, therapies and tests, as well as providing support for small businesses. As part of Team Europe, the Bank is providing more than €600 million to the COVAX initiative to make sure that vaccines will be delivered to low and middle-income countries around the world.
We’re also tackling global challenges like climate change and helping developing countries find innovative solutions to promote sustainable growth, human rights, reduce poverty and inequality, and improve lives.
As Europe’s climate bank, we are helping the world meet the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. We pledge to create €1 trillion in investment for the climate over the next decade. As the largest and greenest multilateral lender, we help economies flourish, create jobs and promote equality.
Development solutions around the world
Poverty, inequality, environmental degradation, climate change—the world faces enormous challenges. The EIB helps developing countries find innovative solutions to promote sustainable growth, human rights, reduce poverty and inequality, and improve lives.
Development is one of the key economic issues facing the globe. To combat world poverty and inequality, migration and climate change, Development Solutions lays out projects and ideas that are having a big impact on the global economy. From gender equality to water security, post-conflict development to digitalisation, Development Solutions is a checklist for a better future. For everyone.
Global Solutions, International Partnerships
The EIB Development Report 2021 “Global Solutions, International Partnerships” highlights how our development and partnership work builds prosperity around the world in places that are a priority to the European Union.
A Partnership with Africa
The European Investment Bank is a key part of the EU toolbox that for decades has helped make the partnership between Africa and Europe stronger. This publication lays out our track record in Africa and our vision for our future partnership with the continent.
Tackling the pandemic
Our response to COVID-19
European Guarantee Fund: the protection shield for businesses
Our European Guarantee Fund is helping small businesses survive the pandemic, hire employees and grow.
Better businesses, stronger economies
Hundreds of thousands of companies are struggling in Europe. Financing approved under the European Guarantee Fund will mobilise billions of euros to get businesses back on track.
I got a job
When we finance a project, we create jobs for citizens of the EU. I Got a Job profiles one person in each EU country whose job is backed by one of our loans.
Building a green future
Our Climate Bank Roadmap outlines our bold ambitions for climate finance to back the European Green Deal and make Europe carbon-neutral. Find out how we’re tackling the climate crisis.
Climate Solutions is the award-winning podcast from the European Investment Bank. We know that stopping climate change is going to be very expensive. We’ll need to build more wind and solar farms. We’ll need to renovate buildings and electrify cars. We’ll need new technologies we haven’t even thought of yet. This is why we need green finance. And it’s why you should subscribe to the new season of Climate solutions: A dictionary of green finance.
Global investment map
The EIB has invested in thousands of companies and projects, both across the EU and beyond, since 1959. Find out how much we invested in your country, see our financing as a percentage of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and filter the results by period and sector.
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