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European Development Finance Institutions

EDFI

EDFI represents 15 development finance institutions based in Europe.

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Response to EU taxonomy - Review of the environmental delegated act

4 Dec 2025

EDFI welcomes the Commissions review of the Taxonomy Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts, aimed at simplifying the TSC, addressing implementation challenges and improving usability. While the review focuses primarily on the workability of the TSC, EDFI considers it important to highlight that these criteria interact with wider structural issues - such as the GAR framework and the lack of mandatory EU-aligned reporting in EMDEs - which together shape the feasibility of applying the Taxonomy outside the EU. As the review explicitly seeks evidence from practitioners where current criteria - particularly DNSH - are difficult to apply or disproportionate, EDFI submits this feedback to illustrate the challenges experienced in EMDE investments and to support adjustments that enable the EU Taxonomy to function effectively in global development finance settings. Please see attached document for detailed information.
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Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and

30 Sept 2025 · Exchange of views on the future direction of Global Gateway and on how new avenues of collaboration

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and Deutsche Bank AG and

12 Mar 2025 · Meeting of the South America Critical Raw Materials (CRM) Coalition of the Willing – Dialogue with private and public sector stakeholders, and financial institutions on sustainable critical raw materials value chains in Latin America.

Meeting with Caroline Wellemans (Head of Unit Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

12 Feb 2025 · Exchange on European Development Finance Institutions’ (EDFI) views on the upcoming omnibus legislative proposal

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

2 Oct 2024 · EDFI Corporate day

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

26 Feb 2024 · EFSD+ guarantees

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

10 Jan 2024 · i) Global Gateway and more specifically the Critical Raw Materials topic and ii) sustainable finance / follow-up to the EU HLEG

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

14 Mar 2023 · EFSD+ and Global Gateway

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

13 Oct 2022 · State of play Global Gateway implementation and roll-out of the European Fund for Sustainable Development plus.

Meeting with Sandra Bartelt (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

19 Sept 2022 · Global Gateway

Response to Sustainable corporate governance

23 May 2022

Please find attached EDFI's comments on the CSDD proposal.
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Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

1 Mar 2022 · EFSD+

Meeting with Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

10 Jun 2021 · Equity Finance

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

9 Mar 2021 · Discussion with the EDFI Task Force on EU Partnership for a better collaboration.

Meeting with Koen Doens (Director-General Directorate-General for International Partnerships)

25 Mar 2020 · The role of European development financial institutions in mobilising private capital towards devp policy priorities, need for stronger complementarity on policy/regulatory reforms. EDFI MC eligibility for pillar assessment, EDFI guarantee programmes

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)

3 Dec 2015 · EU funding in Education