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The State of Green Banks 2025: Learnings from green financing structures around the world
Drawing on data from 51 public financial institutions across more than 20 countries, this new report provides a comprehensive review of how green banks can overcome key barriers to private capital mobilization.
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Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems 2025
Investing in sustainable agrifood systems is critical to achieving multiple sustainable developmental goals (SDGs). This report analyzes climate finance going to global agrifood systems in 2021/22, tracking flows across climate uses, financial sources, sectors, regions, and instruments.
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Nigeria 2025
Nigeria stands at a crossroads, facing urgent climate risks while pursuing sustainable development. Despite a 32% rise in climate finance to USD 2.5 billion in 2021/22, this remains far below needs. Mitigation dominates, but adaptation finance lags, underscoring a critical gap as the country grapples with worsening floods and economic pressures.
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Top-down Climate Finance Needs
CPI collects and standardizes data on climate finance needs from a wide variety of scenarios to provide a comprehensive and unique understanding of the scale of the climate finance gaps in different sectors.
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Integrating Urban Priorities into Country Platforms: Scaling Climate Finance through Multi-Level Collaboration
Summary of the CCFLA and SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance session at the 2025 World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, which explored how country platforms—key tools for scaling climate finance—can more effectively embed urban priorities and support city-level climate action.
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Gendered Impacts of Urban Climate Finance
As cities expand and climate risks intensify, women—who are disproportionately affected yet often excluded from decision-making—must be at the center of urban climate finance. This blog explores how gender disparities weaken climate responses and why integrating women’s leadership, knowledge, and access to finance is essential for building resilient, inclusive cities.
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Integrating Urban and Subnational Priorities into Country Platforms
This policy brief presents a framework for urban-inclusive country platforms, aiming to support national governments in systematically integrating urban and subnational needs into the design, governance, financing, and implementation of country platforms.
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CCFLA Urban Adaptation and Resilience Finance Workstream Scoping Paper
This scoping paper informs CCFLA’s new Urban A&R Finance Workstream by identifying key challenges, mapping member activities, highlighting gaps, and offering recommendations for collective action.
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The Amazon in the New PAC: Recommendations to Promote Sustainable Infrastructure
CPI/PUC-Rio and Amazon 2030 examine how the New PAC relates to the Amazon, focusing on planned investments in four key sectors for regional development: logistics, connectivity, sanitation, and energy.
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Opinion: As net zero climate coalitions pivot, independent data providers must step up transparency efforts
Recent adjustments at the world’s most prominent net zero coalitions have attracted criticism and concern over how best to raise ambition and keep track of financial institution progress on their own net zero commitments. But independent research organizations—such as CPI—may be better placed to support these roles.
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Transforming India's Climate Finance through Sector-Specific Financial Institutions Part 3
This final blog in our series on “Transforming India’s Climate Finance Landscape” spotlights a bold opportunity: establishing a Green and Transition Finance (GTF) Window within key state-owned FIs. Building on their legacy in the power sector, this initiative could unlock targeted capital flows for emissions reduction and clean tech adoption in hard-to-abate sectors. As India advances toward its net-zero targets, the GTF Window offers a critical pathway to scale green and transition finance, derisk projects, and attract global investment.
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Primer for Climate-related Engagement with the IMF
This paper outlines recommendations to enable the IMF, national authorities, and development partners to leverage their distinct expertise to strengthen macroeconomic stability while addressing climate risks. While finance ministries will lead on RSF implementation, they will require meaningful inputs from other institutions, including sectoral ministries and development partners.
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Evolution of Business Models to Support Zero-Emission Truck Adoption
Trucks contribute 45% of India’s road transport emissions, but high costs and financing barriers hinder zero-emission truck (ZET) adoption. Traditional models fall short, making Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS), battery swapping, and Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) essential for reducing costs and enabling scalability. Explore how these models can drive India’s sustainable freight transition in our latest blog.