- Finance at Scale: The IDB Group mobilized over $6 billion in 2025 through financial innovation and landmark instruments, including ReInvest+, EcoInvest, and the first Amazonia Bond.
- Partnerships for Impact: Through initiatives like the Joint MDB Declaration on Resilience and regional collaboration, the IDB Group bridged global agendas with local priorities to accelerate measurable results.
- Ambition into Action: Implementation advanced under programs such as Amazonia Forever, supporting bioeconomy, resilient cities, and sustainable infrastructure. The launch of Financing Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide provided standardized metrics to ensure credible, scalable, and finance-ready outcomes.
2025 marked a pivotal year for advancing nature finance and implementation across the LAC region. As global ambition increasingly shifts toward delivery, the focus in 2025 has been on translating global frameworks and commitments into concrete action on the ground.
For the IDB Group, 2025 was defined by implementation, mobilizing finance, and advancing solutions aligned with national and regional priorities. The initiatives, partnerships, and financial instruments highlighted below reflect sustained efforts to bridge global agendas with country-level action.
Throughout the year, the IDB Group brought together governments, multilateral development banks (MDBs), partners, and communities to advance practical pathways for biodiversity protection and resilient, nature-positive development in the region.
Financial innovation to scale nature solutions
In 2025, the IDB Group announced over $6 billion across implementation, coordination, and financial innovation, reinforcing its commitment to mobilizing finance at scale, as highlighted by President Goldfajn in remarks delivered at COP30.
Key milestones included the launch of ReInvest+, a platform designed to crowd in private sector capital toward development goals, helping bridge persistent financing gaps for nature and resilience. Progress was also made on EcoInvest in partnership with the Government of Brazil, including the fourth auction focused on the Amazon, advancing innovative mechanisms to align conservation with economic incentives.
In addition, the IDB issued its first Amazonia Bond — a $100 million transaction under a $1 billion program — supporting nature-positive investments and sustainable development across the Amazon region. This landmark issuance demonstrates how capital markets can be leveraged to support biodiversity and climate objectives at scale.
Bridging Governments, MDBs, and Partners for Scaled Impact
In 2025, coordination across institutions proved critical to accelerating impact. The IDB Group played a central role in advancing collaboration across institutions and levels of government. This included the Joint MDB Declaration on Resilience, reinforcing collective commitment to climate and nature action, and active engagement through the MDB Joint Action on Nature, strengthening alignment among MDBs.
At the national and subnational levels, the IDB Group collaborated closely with federal ministries, state governments, and municipalities. Across these efforts, the IDB Group served as a connector — linking global institutions with regional priorities and implementation partners to ensure coherence, efficiency, and results.
Implementation: turning ambition into action
Implementation was at the core of the IDB Group’s work throughout 2025. Under the Amazonia Forever regional program, progress was advanced across multiple pillars, including the bioeconomy, resilient cities and infrastructure, innovative financing, and emerging approaches to resilience.
A major milestone was the announcement of the Amazonia Forever Facility for Cities and Resilient Infrastructure, a $1 billion initiative supporting sustainable infrastructure and climate-resilient urban development across Amazon countries.
Beyond flagship initiatives, the IDB Group also advanced tangible results on the ground, including progress in water and sanitation, electricity access, and targeted interventions such as support for schools exposed to extreme heat, demonstrating how climate and nature action directly improve lives.
In 2025, the IDB Group advanced a major milestone in nature finance with the launch of Financing Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide to Results Metrics Selection, developed jointly with the European Investment Bank (EIB), with technical support from The Biodiversity Consultancy, on behalf of the MDBs’ Nature Working Group.
The Guidance was introduced during a high-level event at COP30 featuring Brazil’s Deputy Minister João Paulo Capobianco, IDB President Ilan Goldfajn, and representatives from the EIB, the UK Government, Banco do Brasil, and the Asian Development Bank.
The Guidance addresses a critical gap in nature finance: how to select credible, consistent, and decision-useful metrics. Clear and robust metrics build trust, reduce ambiguity, and are essential to unlocking private capital. Stronger monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems also enhance transparency and environmental integrity.
By providing a practical framework for results measurement, the Guidance supports the operationalization of nature-positive financial instruments and helps turn complex conservation and restoration efforts into clear, scalable, and finance-ready outcomes.
2025 reaffirmed a central message: nature and development must advance together and at scale.
The IDB Group will continue driving implementation by mobilising finance, reducing risk, and supporting countries in translating global frameworks into policies, projects, and measurable results aligned with national priorities.
The progress consolidated in 2025 demonstrates that Latin America and the Caribbean are at the forefront of shaping scalable, finance-ready pathways toward nature-positive and resilient development.