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.
To help investors and policymakers better understand needs and opportunities, and close the adaptation investment gap, CPI tracks the current state of global finance for climate adaptation, guides recommendations on how best to fill data gaps in adaptation tracking, and conducts analysis and proposes solutions aimed to mobilize private finance for adaptation and resilience.
Featured work
Data Visualization
Financial Innovation for Climate Adaptation in Africa
An interactive tool to identify best approaches to adaptation projects.
Publication
An Analysis of Urban Climate Adaptation Finance
While many cities have begun enacting policies and programs to build resilience towards climate hazards, there are numerous barriers to financing urban adaptation activities.
Publication
Accelerating Adaptation Finance – Africa and Global Perspectives
This brief highlights the need to dramatically increase the amount and efficacy of adaptation financing to Africa. It also spotlights the persistent challenges related to adaptation finance flows, and priority actions needed to address them.
Latest work
Publication
Climate Resilient Landscape Finance
Climate Resilient Landscape Finance is an innovative concessional debt facility combining microfinance, private debt, and technical assistance to address the underlying challenges to long-term sustainable, climate-resilient land management in and around African conservancies.
Publication
Catalyst Climate Resilience Fund
The Catalyst Climate Resilience Fund is the leading impact fund and accelerator supporting pre-seed tech startups that are building a climate resilient future in Africa.
Publication
Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems
This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems globally.
Blog
“Beyond Adaptation”: Coming to Terms with Loss & Damage
This blog seeks to unpack the loss & damage policy-finance agenda, reflecting on how we could, or should, define it from a climate finance tracking perspective.
Publication
Tracking Investments in Climate Resilient Infrastructure
This study is a first-of-its-kind attempt to evaluate options for tracking climate resilient infrastructure investments.
Publication
Policy Brief: How to Increase Financing for Urban Climate Adaptation and Resilience
This policy brief presents key actions for national policymakers around the world to increase the amount of available finance for cities to respond to climate risks.