Financing the Future: CPI’s Net Zero and Sustainable Finance Integrity Platform
As the financial sector starts to mainstream climate action into its strategy and operations, we need to address four fundamental questions to ensure a credible path to net zero by 2050:
- Where are we? What is the current state of climate finance by geography and sector.
- Where are we currently headed? What is our current climate finance pathway based on announced commitments by public and private entities.
- Where do we need to be? What is the gap between current commitments and commitments that would actually produce net zero by 2050.
- How do we get there? What policies and implementation tools would help shift financial systems towards credible alignment and maximize investment opportunities.
At CPI, our work helps governments, businesses, and financial institutions answer each of these four questions by:
Understanding and defining the integrity of commitments—and their real economy impacts—through the development of assessment frameworks and methods.
Our work in this area includes:
- The Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity
- Private Financial Institutions Paris Alignment Commitments
- Public Financial Institutions Paris Alignment Commitments
- A Proposed Method for Measuring Paris Alignment of New Investment
Measuring progress in financial systems via tracking analysis and tools.
Our work in this area includes:
- Climate Finance Tracking Program
- Net Zero Finance Tracker
- Paris Misaligned – Finance in the Power Sector
- Paris Alignment of Power Sector Finance Flows in India
- Paris Alignment of Power Sector Finance Flows in Indonesia
Designing and supporting implementation through decision-making frameworks and actor-specific guidance.
Our work in this area includes:
- An Innovative IFI Operating Model for the 21st Century
- Climate Finance Reform Compass
Credible Transition Plans - Guidelines for Financing Credible Coal Transitions
- Paris Alignment Implementation for Development Finance Institutions
Proposal for a Global Credit Guarantee Facility
Convening networks of practitioners to share data and knowledge, provide local context, guide development, and champion action within their spheres of influence.
Our work in this area includes:
- San Giorgio Group
- The Advisory Council for Sustainable Finance Integrity
- The Climate Aligned Finance Tracking Group
All supported by CPI’s rigorous methodology approach and sophisticated data science tools.
Featured work
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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
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Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity
Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity provides first-of-its kind guide to necessary action across the public and private financial sectors
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Climate Finance Reform Compass
CPI has created the Climate Finance Reform Compass to facilitate consensus and coordinate action among governments, civil society, and the private sector on the full range of international financial architecture reforms needed to meet the global climate challenge. It identifies pragmatic goals and milestones for action across nine thematic areas and 29 key reforms, noting the current status, key resources, and where we need to be by 2030. The themes below are used to organize and promote consistency across the individual reform topics included in the Compass. They align with the principles laid out in the COP28 UAE leaders’ declaration on a Global Climate Finance Framework. Our hope is that this information will help to focus efforts on actions where change could happen.
