Adaptation and Resilience
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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.
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Tracking and Mobilizing Private Sector Climate Adaptation Finance
The lack of data on private adaptation finance creates significant uncertainty regarding progress on addressing climate vulnerabilities and leaves decision makers without critical information on where they should target additional investments. CPI has developed a methodological and data approach to...
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Financing Adaptation in India
India faces heightened vulnerability to climate change repercussions, given its diverse geography and socio-economic conditions. This report assesses India’s adaptation approach, scrutinizes the policy landscape, evaluates state-level investment needs, and explores avenues to bridge funding ga...
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Building Financial Instruments for Climate Adaptation
Drawing on lessons learned from past instruments, the Lab has identified five key steps for structuring adaptation-focused financial instruments that deliver results.
Latest work
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s climate finance landscape tracks mitigation and adaptation flows from 2019–2023, revealing gaps between investment needs and available finance. It highlights sources, uses, and priorities that support climate action in one of Africa’s fastest-growing and climate-vulnerable economies.
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Climate finance in China - can adaptation investment mirror the successes of mitigation finance?
Against a backdrop of more frequent and intensifying climate hazards threatening long-term growth and prosperity, China has built a robust enabling environment. The opportunity now lies in translating ambition into progress on adaptation finance.
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Unlocking Finance for Nature-based Solutions in Indian Cities
Guidebook and repository by the India Forum for NbS providing a three-step framework to assess policy, strengthen project models, and unlock finance for urban Nature-based Solutions in Indian cities. Includes best practices and stakeholder insights to support scale and investment readiness.
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Assessing Climate Risk, Framing Resilience, and Reporting Impact: A Guide for Climate Finance Practitioners
This guide supports those working on climate finance vehicle structuring and implementation to manage climate risk and design investments with material improvements to resilience.
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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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Price Risk Facility
The Price Risk Facility addresses the challenges of price volatility in agriculture, which significantly impact the financial stability of smallholder farmers and agribusinesses.
