Our challenge
Climate change is the greatest problem facing humanity and the European Investment Bank is already the world's leading financial backer of climate action projects. But we needed to increase our profile so that we could shape the debate about how best to fight climate change. This was particularly crucial as we are an EU institution and the European Commission's new President was about to unveil a new set of policies. It would have been easy to wait and see what the new Commission wanted from us.
Instead, we decided to take the courageous decision to contribute to...