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Accelerating climate finance — Lab leads innovation in finance with 7 new deals from methane to affordable housing to climate-smart shrimp
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) has selected seven new climate finance ideas for its 2022 acceleration program. The Lab will develop cutting-edge financial concepts that tackle barriers to investment and unlock sustainable private financing in emerging economies. Pilots are planned for Brazil, India, Kenya, South Africa, and Southeast Asia.
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Paris Alignment of Power Sector Finance Flows in India: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovative Solutions
This brief identifies the challenges and opportunities in financing India’s ambitious renewable energy targets.
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Paris Alignment of Power Sector Finance Flows in Indonesia: Challenges, Opportunities and Innovative Solutions
This brief examines the challenges and opportunities in financing Indonesia’s ambitious targets on renewable energy towards an energy transition.
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Blueprints for Climate Finance in Kenya
This report highlights three innovative financial structures that have the potential to transform livelihoods and sustain projects at the local level in Kenya.
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Unlocking Private Sector Adaptation Finance
This blog dives deeper into the reasons underlying the private adaptation finance gap, synthesizing potential policy levers that could help unlock and mobilize private capital to prepare for, or respond to, the physical impacts of climate change.
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Climate Finance in Indonesia: Top 10 highlights from 2021
A cautious sense of optimism has buoyed us throughout 2021 and landed us into 2022. Here is a reflection of the progress we have made towards Climate Finance in Indonesia in 2021, and a preview of what is in stock for 2022.
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Alliance Highlights and Impact Report 2019-2021
This report marks the two-year anniversary of the renewed launch of the Alliance. It provides an overview of core activities over the last two years, key areas that members are engaging in, and identifies trends and gaps in climate finance for cities.
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Tracking Incremental Energy Efficiency Investments in Certified Green Buildings
This brief aims to address the energy efficiency data gap by proposing a methodology for estimating climate finance in energy efficiency in newly constructed green buildings and by adding a more granular view on the alignment of projects—and investments—with low-emission scenarios.
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Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2021
The 2021 edition of Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance provides the most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment.
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Finance for climate action is not on a par with the warming world
In the wake of COP26, a renewed sense of urgency has gathered around climate finance and the complex and sometimes competing challenges this raises. CPI has released the in-depth version of its 2021 Global Landscape of Climate Finance report, which seeks to calibrate this discussion by providing the most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment in 2019/2020.
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Credit for Investments in Brazilian Agriculture and the Role of the Brazilian Development Bank
The study presents an analysis of BNDES performance and evolution in terms of rural credit, as well as the characteristics of credit granted by the bank for the purchase of agricultural machinery and equipment.
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What to look for when assessing net zero commitments from private financial institutions
Institutions managing over $130 trillion in assets are now committed to net zero by 2050. This increase in the number of commitments has been met with equal parts excitement, trepidation, and skepticism. This blog explains what to look for when assessing net zero commitments.
