“Planet 2025-2030” roadmap: the French Development Agency (AFD) accelerates the transition with concrete and sustainable commitments

A systemic response to global challenges

A dual alignment of climate and biodiversity: The AFD Group is strengthening its ambitions by aligning 100% of its activities with the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, dedicating at least €6 billion per year to climate (2025-2027) and €800 million per year to biodiversity, while strengthening its ambition to catalyze financing for the ecological transition.
In line with its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, the Group systematically integrates social issues and inequality into all its Planet interventions, with particular attention to vulnerable populations, gender equality, and just transitions.

Four key commitments structure this roadmap:

• Financing the structural transformation of partner institutions: the Group’s financing will focus on supporting the transformation of economies and sectors to speed up decarbonization, protect ecosystems, reduce climate risks, and encourage the transition of partner economies towards more sustainable development, including in sectors that are particularly challenging to transform.
• Supporting sustainable development trajectories: the AFD Group supports the definition and financing of trajectories that integrate decarbonization, resilience, and nature preservation. It contributes to the transformation of local financial systems and provides widespread advisory support to client banks to assist them in developing and implementing their transition plans.
• Amplifying action by mobilizing all stakeholders: the Group works with a global network of 530 public development banks, the private sector, and international funds, and is strengthening its partnerships with civil society and research organizations. It is developing innovative financing (carbon credits, biodiversity certificates, sustainable bonds) and continuing to mobilize concessional delegated funds to support the most vulnerable countries and institutions.
• Adapting internal practices for greater accountability: the Group is strengthening its internal capabilities, modernizing its approach to environmental and climate risks, improving the measurement of its projects' impact, and committing to monitoring its own environmental footprint by 2030.

From words to action: AFD in motion 

Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer of the AFD Group, states: 
"As the first public development bank to commit to systematically aligning its actions with the Paris Agreement, the AFD Group is stepping up its ambition in the face of the climate crisis and the accelerating loss of biodiversity. The time has come to act faster and more decisively. We are mobilizing all our financial and technical levers to support transformational, equitable investments that are aligned with the Paris and Kunming-Montreal commitments."

Audrey Rojkoff, Director of Climate and Nature at the AFD Group, adds: 
"With this new 'Planet' roadmap, we are affirming our determination to take social issues more resolutely into account in the analysis and management of ecological transitions. By supporting the transformation of economies, we are choosing systemic change that serves both the people and the planet."

AFD, a driving force for shared international finance

The AFD Group will also strengthen its involvement in the major international coalitions it leads, the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) and the Finance in Common (FiCS) initiative, to make public development banks a catalyst for the overhaul of the international financial architecture.
Alongside more than 500 public development banks, AFD will promote a shared vision: that of a finance aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, relying on transparency, consistency, and measurable impact.
Through Proparco and Expertise France, the Group will continue to transform economic and social trajectories by supporting transitions in the public and private sectors and promoting concrete, replicable solutions in more than 115 countries.

For more information: The full roadmap is available at this link.

Press contact: 

AFD: Sophie NOEL –noels@afd.fr – +33 6 48 97 79 30