Development Finance
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Development finance plays a significant role in financing countries’ green economic growth. CPI works with development finance institutions to assess the effectiveness of their policies, instruments, investments, and portfolios, while identifying risks and opportunities. This includes work with the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), a group of 26 national and regional development banks from all over the world, to map their green finance commitments and provide recommendations for how they can align their operations and strategies with the Paris Agreement.
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Discussion Paper: An Innovative IFI Operating Model for the 21st Century
This paper lays out key products and processes that need to be introduced, reformed, and/or scaled to effectively deploy new volumes of climate finance, focusing on multilateral development banks.
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Enhancing the Role of National Development Banks in Supporting Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure
This paper focuses on enhancing the role that National Development Banks play in supporting the acceleration of climate-smart urban infrastructure investment.
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Implementing Alignment: Recommendations for the International Development Finance Club
This study identifies the changes the Paris Agreement implies for the role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) – specifically members of the IDFC – and how they may implement these changes through a targeted set of activities.
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Investing in Gender and Nature: Opportunities for DFIs and MDBs
This action brief invites DFIs, MDBs, and impact investors to identify entry points to embed a dual nature-gender lens into their investment processes.
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Public Development Banks’ Climate Commitments 2025: Trends and progress of PDB climate ambition
Public development banks are crucial to meeting global climate and development goals. Based on data from CPI’s Public Development Bank Climate Action Portal, this report provides practical insights into the steps PDBs and key stakeholders must take to achieve them.
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Public Development Bank Climate Action Portal
The PDB Climate Action Portal tracks the climate commitments made by 170 major PDBs around the world, showcasing areas of significant progress and assessing critical barriers.
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IDFC Green Finance Mapping 2025
The IDFC Green Finance Mapping 2025 report provides the latest assessment of green finance commitments from 27 national and regional development banks. It tracks progress toward climate and environmental goals, analyzes trends in mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity finance, and highlights the I...
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The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2025
The South African Landscape of Climate Finance 2025 offers the first biannual update of national climate finance flows, analyzing how funds are mobilized, channeled, and deployed across sectors. It provides evidence to help policymakers, investors, and partners scale, coordinate, and target finance...
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Strengthening collaboration to scale climate and development finance
Strengthening collaboration among vertical climate funds, multilateral development banks, and national development banks is key to scaling climate and development finance. This report, commissioned by the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, outlines actions to mobilize public and private capital,...
