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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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.
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Driving Jobs, Economic Growth, and Climate Action: The Role of Clean Mobility in India
India’s industrial growth is increasingly aligned with climate goals, with the auto sector central to GDP and jobs. Yet oil dependence and rising emissions pose risks—making EV transition critical for energy security, competitiveness, and low-carbon growth, with both opportunities and transition cha
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2025 Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Impact Report
From 2014 to 2025, the Lab incubated 87 climate finance instruments designed to address barriers to investment in climate sectors. Together, these solutions have mobilized USD 4.4B in climate investment, with USD 1.83B from private investors.
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Catalyzing Green Capital After COP30: Lessons from Brasília and Belém for Scaling Productive Restoration in Brazil
This brief identifies pathways to scale bankable investment in Brazil’s degraded pasture restoration, drawing on discussions from two events.
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Guidebook on Implementing Sustainable MSME Business Models: Mitigation Action
The Guidebook on Implementing Sustainable MSME Business Models: Mitigation Action is a comprehensive reference for micro, small, and medium enterprises, financial institutions, and other stakeholders in supporting the transformation of MSMEs toward sustainable and inclusive business practices.
