The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance identifies, develops, and launches innovative finance instruments that can drive billions in private investment to action on climate change and sustainable development.
The Lab is led by its members, who include over 100 institutions in government, development finance, philanthropy, and the private sector. Climate Policy Initiative serves as the Secretariat and analytical provider.
Since 2014, the Lab has launched 87 solutions that have mobilized over USD 4.4 billion to address climate change.
Featured work
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The Lab selects eight new climate finance solutions expected to unlock USD 600M for emerging markets
Solutions span emerging markets from the Andean Amazon and Brazil to Vietnam, India, Madagascar, Mexico, and the Philippines. Selected from a record 1,172 global applications, these ideas target nature restoration, resilient agriculture, and industrial decarbonization.
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2025 Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Impact Report
From 2014 to 2025, the Lab incubated 87 climate finance instruments designed to address barriers to investment in climate sectors. Together, these solutions have mobilized USD 4.4B in climate investment, with USD 1.83B from private investors.
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Tracking Capital Mobilized by Innovative Climate Finance Vehicles
This methodology brief outlines the comprehensive approach CPI has established for tracking capital mobilized by CPI-supported vehicles.
Latest work
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Catalyzing Green Capital After COP30: Lessons from Brasília and Belém for Scaling Productive Restoration in Brazil
This brief identifies pathways to scale bankable investment in Brazil’s degraded pasture restoration, drawing on discussions from two events.
Blog
Scaling Nature-based Solutions Finance Through Standardization, Data, and Transparent Processes
This blog unpacks the persistent barriers to NbS investment, and what it will take to overcome them.
Blog
From Growing Interest to Action: What Is Shaping Corporate Uptake of Biodiversity Credits?
This blog unpacks corporate perspectives on biodiversity credits and what barriers and drivers are currently shaping this emerging market.
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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.
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A Self-sustaining, Scalable Climate Finance Ecosystem in India is in the Works
As climate solutions move from concept to credibility, locally grounded, bankable models are making climate finance mainstream—turning it from alternative finance into simply finance.
