diff --git a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
index ce7a7d709..27e137dc1 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
+++ b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer-private.h
@@ -288,5 +288,58 @@ void
 _cogl_push_framebuffers (CoglFramebuffer *draw_buffer,
                          CoglFramebuffer *read_buffer);
 
+/*
+ * _cogl_blit_framebuffer:
+ * @src_x: Source x position
+ * @src_y: Source y position
+ * @dst_x: Destination x position
+ * @dst_y: Destination y position
+ * @width: Width of region to copy
+ * @height: Height of region to copy
+ *
+ * This blits a region of the color buffer of the current draw buffer
+ * to the current read buffer. The draw and read buffers can be set up
+ * using _cogl_push_framebuffers(). This function should only be
+ * called if the COGL_FEATURE_OFFSCREEN_BLIT feature is
+ * advertised. The two buffers must both be offscreen and have the
+ * same format.
+ *
+ * Note that this function differs a lot from the glBlitFramebuffer
+ * function provided by the GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit extension. Notably
+ * it doesn't support having different sizes for the source and
+ * destination rectangle. This isn't supported by the corresponding
+ * GL_ANGLE_framebuffer_blit extension on GLES2.0 and it doesn't seem
+ * like a particularly useful feature. If the application wanted to
+ * scale the results it may make more sense to draw a primitive
+ * instead.
+ *
+ * We can only really support blitting between two offscreen buffers
+ * for this function on GLES2.0. This is because we effectively render
+ * upside down to offscreen buffers to maintain Cogl's representation
+ * of the texture coordinate system where 0,0 is the top left of the
+ * texture. If we were to blit from an offscreen to an onscreen buffer
+ * then we would need to mirror the blit along the x-axis but the GLES
+ * extension does not support this.
+ *
+ * The GL function is documented to be affected by the scissor. This
+ * function therefore ensure that an empty clip stack is flushed
+ * before performing the blit which means the scissor is effectively
+ * ignored.
+ *
+ * The function also doesn't support specifying the buffers to copy
+ * and instead only the color buffer is copied. When copying the depth
+ * or stencil buffers the extension on GLES2.0 only supports copying
+ * the full buffer which would be awkward to document with this
+ * API. If we wanted to support that feature it may be better to have
+ * a separate function to copy the entire buffer for a given mask.
+ */
+void
+_cogl_blit_framebuffer (unsigned int src_x,
+                        unsigned int src_y,
+                        unsigned int dst_x,
+                        unsigned int dst_y,
+                        unsigned int width,
+                        unsigned int height);
+
 #endif /* __COGL_FRAMEBUFFER_PRIVATE_H */
 
diff --git a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
index fd98bee3d..fbe0b457d 100644
--- a/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
+++ b/cogl/cogl-framebuffer.c
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
 
 #endif
 
+#define glBlitFramebuffer                 ctx->drv.pf_glBlitFramebuffer
+
 #ifndef GL_FRAMEBUFFER
 #define GL_FRAMEBUFFER		0x8D40
 #endif
@@ -1429,3 +1431,47 @@ _cogl_framebuffer_try_fast_read_pixel (CoglFramebuffer *framebuffer,
   return FALSE;
 }
 
+void
+_cogl_blit_framebuffer (unsigned int src_x,
+                        unsigned int src_y,
+                        unsigned int dst_x,
+                        unsigned int dst_y,
+                        unsigned int width,
+                        unsigned int height)
+{
+  CoglFramebuffer *draw_buffer;
+  CoglFramebuffer *read_buffer;
+
+  _COGL_GET_CONTEXT (ctx, NO_RETVAL);
+
+  draw_buffer = _cogl_get_draw_buffer ();
+  read_buffer = _cogl_get_read_buffer ();
+
+  g_return_if_fail (cogl_features_available (COGL_FEATURE_OFFSCREEN_BLIT));
+  /* We can only support blitting between offscreen buffers because
+     otherwise we would need to mirror the image and GLES2.0 doesn't
+     support this */
+  g_return_if_fail (cogl_is_offscreen (draw_buffer));
+  g_return_if_fail (cogl_is_offscreen (read_buffer));
+  /* The buffers must be the same format */
+  g_return_if_fail (draw_buffer->format == read_buffer->format);
+
+  /* Make sure the current framebuffers are bound. We explicitly avoid
+     flushing the clip state so we can bind our own empty state */
+  _cogl_framebuffer_flush_state (_cogl_get_draw_buffer (),
+                                 _cogl_get_read_buffer (),
+                                 COGL_FRAMEBUFFER_FLUSH_SKIP_CLIP_STATE);
+
+  /* Flush any empty clip stack because glBlitFramebuffer is affected
+     by the scissor and we want to hide this feature for the Cogl API
+     because it's not obvious to an app how the clip state will affect
+     the scissor */
+  _cogl_clip_stack_flush (NULL);
+
+  glBlitFramebuffer (src_x, src_y,
+                     src_x + width, src_y + height,
+                     dst_x, dst_y,
+                     dst_x + width, dst_y + height,
+                     GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT,
+                     GL_NEAREST);
+}