METHODOLOGY
Many organizations design and advocate for new climate institutions and policies, but few evaluate how these decisions are implemented and whether they have achieved their goals. Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides crucial insight to decision makers as it measures the gap between policy design and real-world outcomes. CPI also distinguishes itself by employing a common methodology across key nations, allowing it to provide a truly global analysis that lets policymakers see how their nation's performance stacks up.
Some of the services provided by CPI include:
- Helping developing nations create standards for low-carbon growth plans and evaluating their performance
- Conducting "time-series" research on the implementation and evolution of climate and energy policies to determine their effects on economic development and carbon emissions
- Issuing early warnings about policies that are falling short, diagnosing the causes of the problems, and suggesting remedies that satisfy economic and environmental demands
- Assessing energy subsidies, fiscal stimulus programs, and other government efforts to promote energy efficiency and renewable power
- Assembling and spreading best practices and lessons learned by major emitting countries in their quest for low-carbon development
- Evaluating how markets and financial instruments can diversify investment and climate risks, with particular emphasis on the fit between the incentives of public agencies that design and implement public policy and the incentives of the private firms and investors whose behavior public policy aims to influence.