Adaptation and Resilience
There is an urgent need to spur greater investment into climate adaptation and resilience. However, current investments in adaptation constitute only a fraction of what is needed to avoid costly and catastrophic future impacts.
CPI tracks the current state of global finance for climate adaptation, and has published work that proposes solutions to increase investment and recommendations to fill data gaps in adaptation tracking.
Featured work
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Understanding and Increasing Finance for Climate Adaptation in Developing Countries
This report explores the current state of finance for climate adaptation and proposes practical, near term solutions to both fill in knowledge gaps and to increase investment.
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Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2019
The 2019 edition of Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance provides the most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment.
Blog
Expanding the Horizon of Climate Adaptation Finance
Despite the critical importance of adaptation finance tracking, significant data and reporting challenges limit our ability to capture the full picture of global adaptation finance flows in the Landscape.
Latest work
Blog
It’s time for recovery finance to step up
Now, more than ever, development finance has a role to play in addressing both short and long-term needs, setting market signals, and taking risks the private sector can’t bear – all roles crucial for setting the trajectory toward a more sustainable future.
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IDFC Green Finance Mapping 2020
IDFC has conducted regular mapping of its member institutions’ green finance commitments since 2011. Climate Policy Initiative supports this effort by assisting IDFC member institutions filling out the survey, and checks, aggregates, and analyzes the data.
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Indeks Desa Membangun Plus (IDM+): Enhancing Direct Incentives for Sustainable Land Use in Indonesian Villages
This paper proposes a two-part approach for a potentially sweeping, but relatively practical reform to encourage villages across Indonesia to adopt sustainable practices.
Blog
Towards a greener tomorrow: India needs climate budget tagging
Climate budget tagging will help identify, classify, and weigh climate-relevant spending, thereby enabling the estimation, monitoring, and tracking of such expenditures
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Landscape of Green Finance in India
Climate Policy Initiative’s Landscape of Green Finance in India presents the most comprehensive information on green investment flows in the country in FY 2017-FY 2018.
Blog
Insuring Systemic Resilience: Mobilising public-private insurance action to deliver pandemic and climate resilience
Leading voices from across public and private sectors debate the crucial intersections between climate risk, pandemic risk, financial resilience, and the role of insurance.
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Green Bonds in China: the State and Effectiveness of the Market / 中国绿色债券市场：趋势与分析
The Chinese green bond market expanded rapidly from 2016-2019, with more than USD 120 billion of cumulative issuance.
Blog
Uncovering the Private Climate Finance Landscape in Indonesia
Indonesia needs to significantly scale up climate finance in the next ten years to achieve its NDCs. CPI’s upcoming study, Uncovering the Landscape of Private Climate Finance in Indonesia, is aimed at developing a first-of-its-kind approach for tracking private climate finance in Indonesia.
