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An Innovative IFI Operating Model for the 21st Century
A collection of resources to help guide international financial institutions’ ability to mobilize significantly larger volumes of climate finance
CPI is an analysis and advisory organization with deep expertise in finance and policy. Our mission is to help governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive economic growth while addressing climate change.
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Technical Brief: Vulnerability Assessment of Mineral-Rich States to Energy Transition
Securing a just transition is critical to minimize the impacts on all stakeholders associated with the domestic production and consumption of these solid fossil fuel resources. This brief helps rank states based on their vulnerability to an energy transition.
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Emissions Accounting in Managed Coal Phaseout Finance
Financing early coal retirement creates a potential dilemma for financial institutions: adding emissions-intensive assets to the financing institution’s portfolio during a time when financial institutions are increasing efforts to reduce the emissions covered in their portfolios. This brief outlines several approaches to deal with this possible friction.
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Are Indonesian Banks Ready to Account Climate-related Matters?
Based on a focus group survey involving Indonesia’s major commercial banks, Climate Policy Initiative has analyzed the country’s financial sector readiness and progress in assessing, reporting, and disclosing climate-related matters against national guidelines and international best practices.
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Toward Accelerating Climate Finance: Forging a New Partnership between the Global South and the Global North
Climate finance flows are falling short of the estimated needs. This policy brief presents ways through which G7 countries can help bridge the climate finance gap and provide much-needed assistance to emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) as well as least developed countries (LDCs) for climate action.
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Improving Local Enabling Conditions for Private Sector Climate Investments in Cities
Barriers to private urban climate investments can be found at the macro, city, and project levels. This Report explores the barriers, good practice lessons, and recommendations to improve local enabling conditions to attract private sector capital to support climate investments in cities of emerging economies.
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“Beyond Adaptation”: Coming to Terms with Loss & Damage
This blog seeks to unpack the loss & damage policy-finance agenda, reflecting on how we could, or should, define it from a climate finance tracking perspective.
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Financial Aggregation Blueprints for Urban Climate Infrastructure
This report helps mainstream municipal financial aggregation by expanding the evidence base for successful case studies. It aims to provide cities and CCFLA members with detailed “how-to” guidance that can be used as a reference when developing their financial aggregation instruments.
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Fighting Deforestation in the Amazon: Strategic Coordination and Priorities for Federal and State Governments
In this study, researchers from CPI/PUC-Rio analyze deforestation and land tenure within the Amazon biome to identify critical areas for public authorities to address in each territory.
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Policy Brief: Policies and Enabling Environment to Drive Private Investments for Industrial Decarbonization in India
This brief aims to support policymakers in making informed decisions and prioritize actions that can drive climate-aligned private investments to bridge the financing gap for low-carbon development of industries in India.
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Impact and Highlights from CPI's Climate Finance Tracking Program
Our 2022 Highlights and Impact Report outlines the impact and key milestones achieved by our climate finance tracking workstream in 2022.
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Challenges of Rural Insurance in the Context of Climate Change: the Case of Soybeans
To contribute to a better understanding of climate risk and the design of public policies for agricultural risk management, researchers from CPI/PUC-Rio examined rural insurance in Brazil, analyzing the coverage of this financial instrument for soybeans, the main insured crop.
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Discussion Paper: An Innovative IFI Operating Model for the 21st Century
This paper lays out key products and processes that need to be introduced, reformed, and/or scaled to effectively deploy new volumes of climate finance, focusing on multilateral development banks.
