World Bank gets a C‑
A Bretton Woods Project scorecard grades the World Bank’s 2025 climate finance performance a C‑, citing shortfalls in both funding volume and equity for vulnerable countries. Meanwhile, Nigeria is piloting a national plan to convert $2 billion of wasted methane into energy and economic value, and Afreximbank will focus on intra‑African trade and industrialisation at its June meetings — all signaling a push for more practical, region‑focused resilience strategies. (brettonwoodsproject.org) (afripoli.org) (thebftonline.com) (forbes.com)
Bretton Woods Project’s April 2026 briefing notes the World Bank reported $50.8 billion in climate finance for FY25 (1 July 2024–30 June 2025), a record-high figure the scorecard uses as its baseline. (brettonwoodsproject.org) The scorecard flags a low grant share — only 9% of the Bank’s FY25 climate finance was delivered as grants — and assigns a “transparency: C” for uneven disclosure across the group, particularly weak project‑level reporting at IFC and MIGA. (brettonwoodsproject.org) The World Bank’s own FY25 climate disclosures break the $50.8 billion down across institutions: roughly $22.5 billion for IBRD, $16.7 billion for IDA, $8.1 billion for IFC and $3.5 billion for MIGA. (thedocs.worldbank.org) Nigeria’s new methane strategy cites upstream regulator NUPRC estimates that 250–300 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd) of gas is wasted through flaring and leaks, a volume the brief values at about $1.2–1.4 billion at domestic prices and roughly $2.5 billion if priced as LNG. (afripoli.org) The policy brief also records that about 276 MMscfd was flared in Nigeria in 2023 (valued at ≈$1 billion) and warns the country risks forfeiting roughly $1.7 billion in 2025, while citing World Bank global flaring data that estimated 389 MtCO2e from flaring in 2024, including ~46 MtCO2e from unburnt methane. (afripoli.org) Afreximbank has scheduled its 33rd Annual Meetings in El Alamein, Egypt, from 21–24 June 2026 under the theme “Intra‑African Trade and Industrialisation: Pathway to Economic Sovereignty,” with seminars and plenaries running through 21–23 and a closed Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 24 June. (afreximbank.com) Analysis pieces note the broader finance gap the sector faces — an estimated roughly $6 trillion per year is needed to meet Paris targets through 2030 — and say AI can improve project identification, monitoring and risk assessment but cannot erase the higher cost of capital and market risks in vulnerable countries (Forbes cites examples and practitioner commentary on these limits). (forbes.com)
