Industrial Decarbonization
Production of industrial materials contribute to over a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reconciling the growth of industrial output with global climate ambitions remains one of our toughest challenges.
CPI leverages its expertise across sectors, actors, and geographies to support industrial decarbonization, including work to develop a roadmap for financing industrial decarbonization and policy interventions that best enable the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies required for long-term decarbonization of the largest emitting industrial sectors.
Featured work
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Analysis: Costs and Impacts of Low-Carbon Technologies for Steel and Cement Sectors in India
This piece discusses key policy recommendations from the steel and cement sectors in India based on our analysis of low-carbon solutions (LCS), which are critical in policy-making and investment decisions.
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Blog: The Path to Decarbonizing India's Steel and Cement Industry
This blog highlights the urgent need for strong public policy and financial support in India to align two of the country’s largest CO2-emitting industrial sectors with long-term, low-carbon pathways.
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Policy Brief: Policies and Enabling Environment to Drive Private Investments for Industrial Decarbonization in India
This brief aims to support policymakers in making informed decisions and prioritize actions that can drive climate-aligned private investments to bridge the financing gap for low-carbon development of industries in India.
Latest work
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DBSA: Financial instrument design for an effective carbon market in South Africa
The Development Bank of Southern Africa, in partnership with the FiCS Innovation Lab Incubator, has developed two novel financial instruments designed to transform carbon credits from complex assets into de-risked, bankable products.
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The Regenerative Agriculture Fund: A scalable blueprint for Agri-innovation in EMDEs
EMDE agriculture faces a double-bind: it’s a climate risk driver and its biggest victim. BDMG’s RA Fund breaks this cycle. Using a three-tiered approach to de-risk, empower, and align incentives, this model turns policy into reality. Download the report to explore the future of agri-innovation...
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Closing the Rural Credit Divide: Pathways to Increase PRONAF Access for Smallholders
In this publication, researchers from CPI/PUC-RIO identify the main barriers to credit and outline pathways to expand family farmers’ access to PRONAF in order to boost sustainable production and climate resilience.
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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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Can carbon finance work for smallholder agriculture?
This blog identifies three barriers to the efficacy of voluntary carbon markets for agrifood systems—unreliable corporate demand, high upfront costs, and asymmetric market incentives—and discuss what needs to shift to unlock the potential of carbon credits for agrifood systems.
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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.
