International Climate Initiative publishes 2025 report
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The new annual report provides an insight into the International Climate Initiative’s (IKI) current priorities, statistics on the use of funding, and analysis of the IKI’s impact worldwide.
With its newly restructured funding instruments, the International Climate Initiative (IKI) raised its profile last year, paving the way for successful climate and biodiversity action.
With the launch of the IKI Large Grants in 2025, the funding programme is now better equipped to address international needs in terms of both climate action and biodiversity conservation.
The 2025 Annual Report, which has now been published on the IKI website, provides details on the IKI Large Grants and features many other fascinating insights into the work of the funding programme. The focus is on where funding commitments were allocated in 2025 and how IKI projects are making an impact around the world.
Divided into several chapters, the IKI Annual Report shows which projects have been newly approved, and which have received additional funding within the priority fields of action of the IKI Strategy up to 2030.
"The IKI Annual Report 2025 clearly shows the positive impact that the supported projects are having worldwide. To measure this impact, a robust monitoring and evaluation system is required, which ZUG has designed for the IKI on behalf of the German government and continues to develop."
Dr Constanze Haug and Stefan Demuth, ZUG-Management
Through its newly funded projects, the IKI worked, among other things, on
- Leveraging private investments,
- supporting climate policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions,
- promoting the global energy transition and the industry decarbonisation,
- capitalising synergies between climate action and biodiversity conservation,
- strengthening adaptation to the impacts of climate change, and
- supporting sustainable urban spaces.
The presentation of the impacts achieved is based on the IKI’s Standard Indicators and draws on the evaluation covering the years 2015 to 2024. Through these Standard Indicators, the IKI records selected results across the entire funding programme. They provide answers to questions such as “How large an area and which ecosystems have IKI projects been able to protect so far?” and “How much private capital has been leveraged directly or indirectly through IKI projects?”
In addition, the IKI Annual Report provides comprehensive statistics on the use of funding and looks back at the IKI’s involvement in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, as well as many other events in which the IKI participated in 2025.
Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft gGmbH, as the project management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and has produced the IKI Annual Report 2025 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN) and the Federal Foreign Office.
