Blended Finance
Blended finance is a key tool to help nations meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, while also addressing the risks and barriers faced by investors when pursuing the opportunities these afford.
CPI’s Blended Finance in Clean Energy report looks at what is needed to unlock investment in developing economies. Our analysis found that the greatest opportunities for blended finance impact are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and East Asia, with a subset of eight high-impact countries alone offering USD 360 billion in clean energy investment potential by 2030.
Featured work
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Inclusive Climate Finance: Improving Access for Marginalized Populations in Indonesia
This report, developed in partnership with Hivos Indonesia, aims to assess the current climate finance landscape in Indonesia and explore possible ways in which climate finance can be mobilized to target the marginalized populations.
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Highlights from Indonesia’s JETP Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan
Indonesia’s JETP launched its Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan (CIPP) on 21 November 2023. As CPI was heavily involved in the process, supporting both the JETP Secretariat’s overall editorial process and the Finance Working Group’s specific input to the CIPP, we are sharing key highlights from the document.
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Enhancing MDB-NDB cooperation: Understanding climate finance flows and Paris alignment
This report aims to establish an understanding of the state of both climate finance flows and climate mainstreaming across public development banks. It also presents recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness and frequency of MDB–NDB engagement on climate finance, as well as ecosystem-wide progress on climate mainstreaming.
Latest work
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Indonesia's JETP is a glass half full
In this piece, CPI Indonesia Director Tiza Mafira shares her insights on the national convergence as well as coordinated global responses required for Indonesia’s JETP to succeed.
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The Next Phase of Indonesia Green Taxonomy: Transition Finance to Support Decarbonization
Indonesia must make a rapid transition to decarbonization while maintaining economic resilience. We outlined key considerations and steps to adopt transition finance into the next iteration of Indonesia green taxonomy.
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The Net Zero Alignment of Indonesia’s Power Sector Finance
Our latest tracking of Indonesia power sector finance examines renewable energy capacity and financing gaps, as well as opportunities to better align the country’s power sector finance with its NZE 2060 commitment.
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Blended Finance for Climate Investment in India - Equity & Debt
In this blog, we describe how a select set of equity and debt blended finance instruments could be structured to make catalytic investments in India’s climate change sectors, attracting commercial capital towards projects that contribute to sustainable development, while providing financial returns to investors.
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Climate Finance in Indonesia: A landmark 2022 lays solid foundation for action in 2023
As Indonesia took up the mantle of G20 presidency, 2022 was a particularly momentous year filled with opportunities to examine the country’s climate finance landscape, improve the underpinning regulatory framework, and foster greater global cooperation on ensuring just energy transitions. Here is a reflection of progresses we have achieved in both sustainable finance and energy transition areas last year and a preview of what is underway for 2023.
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Blog: De-risking Climate Finance with Magic Wands
This blog highlights the use of guarantees and insurance as useful mechanisms to de-risk finance and demonstrates how similar approaches can be used to leverage public finance. It is a follow up of another blog -Ways to de-risk Climate Finance.