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Tracking the Transition: Global private financial institutions’ progress toward net zero
Financial Institutions (FIs) are essential enablers of transition efforts, as their core function as owners and financiers dictates whether the global economy transitions to low-carbon, resilient pathways or remains locked into vulnerable, high-emission systems. Based on CPI’s NZFT data, this...
CPI is an analysis and advisory organization with deep expertise in finance and policy. Our mission is to support governments, businesses, and financial institutions in driving economic growth while addressing climate change.
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The Clean Energy Equity Investment Gap
Emerging markets and developing economies face a USD 215 billion annual equity gap for clean energy investment. This report highlights the critical role of equity, especially catalytic equity, in scaling projects, mobilizing private capital, and accelerating the net zero transition.
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Climate Finance Reform Compass
The Climate Finance Reform Compass is a dynamic tool developed by CPI to track, align, and accelerate progress on climate finance reforms globally and in Brazil. By translating high-level commitments into concrete milestones, it helps governments, financiers, and civil society coordinate action and...
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Brazil
In this first-of-its-kind report, CPI/PUC-RIO tracks and analyzes climate finance flowing to and within Brazil, across all actors – domestic and international; public and private – between 2019 and 2023.
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Financing Climate Action
Climate finance is essential to India’s shift to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. This volume examines India’s finance landscape, institutions, instruments, project solutions, and global lessons to support effective and equitable climate action.
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Methane Abatement in Sustainable Taxonomies
This joint CPI–Climate Bonds Initiative report delivers the first cross-regional review of how five sustainable finance taxonomies cover methane abatement. It identifies gaps, highlights best practices, and provides guidance to drive investment into high-impact mitigation.
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Financing Transitional Activities in the Iron and Steel Sector
India’s iron and steel sector is key to growth but highly emission-intensive. This brief highlights the role of Transition Finance in enabling a phased shift toward lower-carbon production and proposes a financing approach to support sectoral decarbonization.
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Role of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Decarbonizing India’s Steel Sector
India’s steel sector is a key driver of economic growth and industrial development. With rising consumption and expanding capacity, the country is poised to meet increasing demand while advancing its competitiveness in global markets.
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Viet Nam Power Sector Finance Dashboard (2017-2022)
The Dashboard showcases recent trend analysis of investments in Viet Nam’s renewable energy vs fossil fuel power plants.
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Tracking the Quality of Climate Finance: From Theory to Practice
The growing interest in understanding climate finance quality requires clear ways to track it. This paper identifies practical indicators across project, market, and system levels, laying the groundwork for consistent evidence, comparison, and more strategic use of scarce public climate finance.
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A key to unlock billions in private investment: the GGG Guarantee Directory
The GGG Guarantee Directory, a product of the Green Guarantee Group, developed with support from the Climate Policy Initiative, is the first public, global platform designed to map, organize, and compare climate-aligned guarantee instruments.
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Closing Brazil’s Climate Finance Gap: The Role of Blended Finance and Financial Innovation
CPI’s workshop, supported by iCS, brought together representatives from key financial institutions to understand how they can collaborate to accelerate climate finance investments in Brazil.
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Scaling Productive Restoration in Brazil: Financial Innovation and Investment Pathways
CPI, with support from the Embassy of the Netherlands, convened a roundtable discussion to explore practical pathways for scaling finance for the restoration of Brazil’s degraded pastures.
