Greening the International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has emerged as a key player in climate policy. The organization introduced its Climate Strategy in 2021 and established the Resilience and Sustainability Facility in 2022 to provide financial support to countries facing adaptation and mitigation challenges. The IMF's closer engagement with the economic dimensions of climate change holds the promise of helping countries pre-empt large-scale economic dislocations from climate risks. But how much progress has the IMF made in supporting the green transition? What is the policy track record of the IMF's climate loans? How do regular IMF loans and mandated reforms encompass climate considerations? How have the IMF's economic surveillance activities considered climate risks? Based on new evidence, the findings in this Element point to the multifaceted, and at times contradictory, ways green transition objectives have become embedded within IMF activities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. The IMF and the green transition; 2. Organizational innovation: introducing the resilience and sustainability facility; 3. Organizational inertia: the IMF's standard lending agreements; 4. Organizational experimentation: economic surveillance and climate advice; 5. Conclusions: real but limited organizational change; Appendix: List of IMF lending programs approved between January 2020 and December 2024; References.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandros Kentikelenis, Alexandros (Bocconi University) Stub Kentikelenis, Stubbs Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009697521
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0969752-1
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Climate Change, Finance, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Environmental Economics, Monetary Economics, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Green Finance / Sustainable Finance