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Paris Alignment and Climate Readiness Assessment
Multilateral development banks now assess new operations for alignment with the Paris Agreement. The World Bank has aligned all new operations since 1 July 2023, and IFC and MIGA reached all new operations from 1 July 2025. This assessment checks your project or pipeline against the joint MDB methodological principles: the mitigation test (BB1), the adaptation and resilience test (BB2), country climate strategies, greenhouse gas accounting and climate finance reporting. This is a real readiness tool: each question is drawn from the current official texts listed under "Based on", and Risalat's guideline monitor re-checks those sources every two weeks so the questions follow new editions.
- Assessment
- 12 min
- Free
- Sources checked October 2026
Who it is for
- Project preparation teams and PIUs seeking MDB or climate fund finance
- Ministries of finance, planning and environment
- Utilities, municipalities and state-owned enterprises
- Consultants preparing feasibility studies and concept notes
- Banks and funds preparing climate-related proposals
What you get
- A readiness score across six Paris alignment areas
- A view of mitigation and adaptation gaps a lender will raise
- Practical steps for climate risk screening and GHG accounting
- Links to the official MDB methodology
- Programmes that build the missing skills
How this tool works
- Built on
- Joint MDB Paris Alignment Approach; Joint MDB Paris alignment: universally aligned and not aligned activity lists; What you need to know about World Bank Group alignment with the Paris Agreement
- Scoring
- Each answer scores from 0 (not in place) to 4 (fully in place). An area's score is the points earned as a share of the maximum for the questions you answered; the overall score is the average of the areas. Bands: Early stage 0–39%, Developing 40–69%, Ready 70–100%.
- Your data
- What you type stays in your browser unless you save it to a free account. We receive your name, email and summary only when you open your results.
- Sources checked
- October 2026 (checked every month)
- Team or organisation
- With a free account you can invite colleagues from each department to answer the same questions. You get a consolidated dashboard: scores by area and department, where colleagues disagree, priority gaps and an action plan. Anonymous mode hides names and groups departments with fewer than 3 responses.
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Programmes that build these skills
Upcoming programmes whose content matches the areas this tool measures. Your results show which fit your weakest areas.
ProgrammeClimate Resilience and Adaptation Planning Training for South Asian Officials in BangkokBangkok · 4 Jan 2027Builds: Country strategy fitProgrammeAccessing Climate Finance: GCF and Adaptation Fund Proposals in NadiNadi · 11 Jan 2027Builds: Country strategy fitProgrammeAgri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in CasablancaCasablanca · 11 Jan 2027Builds: Country strategy fitProgrammeTraining on Evidence-based Research on Climate Change Adaptation, Food Security, and Energy Transition in BerlinBerlin · 22 Feb 2027Builds: Mitigation alignment (BB1)ProgrammeRenewable Energy Planning and Mini-Grids in JohannesburgJohannesburg · 4 Jan 2027Builds: Mitigation alignment (BB1)ProgrammeCatastrophe Drawdown Operationalisation & Disaster Risk Financing in SingaporeSingapore · 4 Jan 2027Builds: Adaptation and resilience (BB2)
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Questions
What does Paris alignment mean for a project?
The lender checks that the operation is consistent with the Paris Agreement goals: it should not lock in high-carbon assets and it should manage physical climate risks. The joint MDB principles call these the mitigation and adaptation building blocks.
Which lenders use the joint MDB principles?
The World Bank Group and the other major MDBs that signed the joint approach, such as ADB, AfDB, AIIB, EBRD, EIB and IDB, each apply them through their own procedures.
Is a climate risk screening the same as an ESIA?
No. Screening focuses on climate hazards and the project's exposure to them. Its findings should feed into the environmental and social assessment and the design.
Do small projects need GHG accounting?
Lenders usually set thresholds for full accounting, but an estimate of the main emission sources helps you pass the mitigation test and prepare climate finance proposals.
Based on
- Joint MDB Paris Alignment Approach World Bank page on the joint methodological principles for direct, policy-based, intermediated and corporate finance.
- Joint MDB Paris alignment: universally aligned and not aligned activity lists Joint MDB publication, 2023.
- What you need to know about World Bank Group alignment with the Paris Agreement World Bank, 10 July 2023. IBRD/IDA 100% from 1 July 2023; IFC and MIGA 100% from 1 July 2025.
- The World Bank Group and Paris Alignment World Bank Group.
Sources checked: October 2026. We check the official sources every month.
This is a self-assessment and training tool, not a lender's official alignment assessment. Each MDB applies the joint principles through its own procedures, so confirm requirements with the lender for your operation.
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