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Public Development Bank Climate Action Portal
The PDB Climate Action Portal tracks the climate commitments made by 170 major PDBs around the world, showcasing areas of significant progress and assessing critical barriers.
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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Public Development Banks’ Climate Commitments 2025: Trends and progress of PDB climate ambition
Public development banks are crucial to meeting global climate and development goals. Based on data from CPI’s Public Development Bank Climate Action Portal, this report provides practical insights into the steps PDBs and key stakeholders must take to achieve them.
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State of OECD Pension Funds’ Climate Transition: Insights and recommendations from the Net Zero Finance Tracker
Pension funds—among the world’s largest asset owners—play a unique role in the financial sector’s climate transition. This report presents analysis from the Net Zero Finance Tracker, exploring the progress of 594 OECD-based pension funds.
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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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Unlocking Climate Finance for Women-Led Enterprises in Nepal: Ground-level Insights
This brief examines how women-led and women-engaging enterprises in Nepal’s agriculture and forestry sectors can access finance to strengthen livelihoods and climate resilience, based on primary research by CPI with FA-N and SIAS.
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Investing in Gender and Nature: Opportunities for DFIs and MDBs
This action brief invites DFIs, MDBs, and impact investors to identify entry points to embed a dual nature-gender lens into their investment processes.
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Policy Brief: Green Industrial Policy for India’s Iron and Steel Sector Transition
India’s iron and steel sector must expand to meet growing demand while reducing emissions in line with the country’s net-zero goal. This policy brief examines policy options to enable low-carbon steel production and their impacts on emissions, jobs, and project economics.
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Operationalizing JETP Just Transition Standard 9 in Maluku
The report provides detailed blueprint for operationalizing Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Standard 9 on economic diversification and transformation in remote regions undergoing energy transition.
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The women making Africa’s food system more resilient
Women-led agribusinesses in the CLIC Connector’s cohort are putting women at the centre of their business models in innovative ways that benefit their economies, environment, and societies.
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Brazil’s Climate Finance Crossroads: A Compass pointing the way for reforms
As a first-of-its-kind national platform, the Brazil Compass tracks progress, priorities, and reforms needed to unlock finance for a just and inclusive transition.
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Just Transition Financing Framework
India’s clean energy transition brings opportunities but also risks for fossil fuel–dependent states. This brief presents a Just Transition Financing Framework, using Jharkhand as a case study, to support inclusive, state-led planning and targeted transition investments.
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Roadmap for an Equitable Green Economic Diversification in Jharkhand
Jharkhand’s fossil fuel–dependent economy faces growing transition challenges as India moves toward net zero. This brief outlines a roadmap for green economic diversification across clean power, green molecules, sustainable mobility, and manufacturing to support jobs.
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Where Does Brazil Stand with the Implementation of the Forest Code? – 2025 Edition
A new publication by CPI/PUC-Rio presents the executive summary of the report “Where Are We in the Implementation of the Forest Code?”, which provides an updated overview of the status of CAR and PRA implementation in all Brazilian states.
