Financial Innovation
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Deploying the trillions needed to address global climate adaptation and mitigation requires more than just shifting investments. It requires novel ways to attract and deploy those investments with financial innovation.
CPI researches and develops innovative climate finance policies, financial instruments, and business models that create measurable impact and can scale quickly. It has particular expertise in combining blended finance models with early-stage technical assistance to ensure bold ideas move from concept to implementation quickly and with as little risk as possible.
Featured work
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Climate Finance Innovation for Africa
Meeting Africa’s climate finance needs will require significantly higher levels of investment, especially from the private sector. This publication provides a framework for how financial and non-financial solutions can be efficiently deployed to overcome barriers to finance and capitalize climate so...
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Cost of Capital for Renewable Energy Investments in Developing Economies
A credit guarantee facility could help address cost-of-capital issues for renewable energy, allowing countries with high solar potential to significantly increase their installed capacity.
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Tracking Capital Mobilized by Innovative Climate Finance Vehicles
This methodology brief outlines the comprehensive approach CPI has established for tracking capital mobilized by CPI-supported vehicles.
Latest work
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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.
Blog
A key to unlock billions in private investment: the GGG Guarantee Directory
The GGG Guarantee Directory, a product of the Green Guarantee Group, developed with support from the Climate Policy Initiative, is the first public, global platform designed to map, organize, and compare climate-aligned guarantee instruments.
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Fit-for-Purpose Forest Finance: A Menu of Financial Mechanisms
A new study by CPI/PUC-RIO identifies 30 international financial mechanisms currently mobilizing capital to advance forest objectives around the world.
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Data Visualization (The Forest-Climate Nexus: A Fit-for-Purpose Framework for Climate Impact)
Study by CPI/PUC-RIO presents a financial architecture tailored to meet the different realities of tropical forests across the world, and proposes a Reversing Deforestation Mechanism (RDM) to fill a critical gap that would advance restoration and transform the role of forests from a climate risk to...
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The Forest-Climate Nexus: A Fit-for-Purpose Framework for Climate Impact
This study presents a financial architecture tailored to meet the different realities of tropical forests across the world, and proposes a Reversing Deforestation Mechanism (RDM) to fill a critical gap that would advance restoration and transform the role of forests from a climate risk to a climate...
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Scaling Up Green Guarantees: Recommendations by the Green Guarantee Group
This report by the Green Guarantee Group offers clear, practical recommendations to scale the deployment of guarantees where they are needed most.
