Private Finance
The private financial sector is a crucial component of achieving our global climate and sustainability goals, from the power of directing its own assets and investments, to its leverage in evaluating “counterparties,” in other words the clients and assets in its portfolios.
CPI collaborates directly with the private financial sector—asset managers, asset owners, banks, corporates, and insurers—to establish frameworks, increase transparency, and develop new financial models and instruments that accelerate the transition of global finance flows towards net zero emissions and climate-resilient development. The effectiveness of our private financial sector work is enhanced by CPI’s ability to bring key actors outside the private sector to the table, ensuring coordinated, mutually-agreeable approaches that accelerate adoption and implementation.
Featured work
Publication
Private Financial Institutions’ Commitments to Paris Alignment
A thorough tracking and analysis of public commitments to address climate change from more than 350 private financial actors across four financial sectors (asset owner, asset manager, commercial bank, insurer).
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Private Financial Institutions’ Paris Alignment Commitments: 2022 Update
A thorough tracking and analysis of public commitments to address climate change from more than 450 private financial actors across four financial sectors (asset owner, asset manager, commercial bank, insurer).
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What Makes a Transition Plan Credible? Considerations for Financial Institutions
The brief highlights six necessary elements that every climate transition plan should address for a credible transition plan.
Latest work
Blog
Pension Funds as Climate Investors: the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act
The IRA has potential to address some of the key barriers that subnational pension funds face in making climate investments.
Publication
Are Indonesian Banks Ready to Account Climate-related Matters?
Based on a focus group survey involving Indonesia’s major commercial banks, Climate Policy Initiative has analyzed the country’s financial sector readiness and progress in assessing, reporting, and disclosing climate-related matters against national guidelines and international best practices.
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Finance Landscape of Highways and Railroads: Elements for Strengthening the Governance of Infrastructure Investments in the Brazilian Amazon
CPI/PUC-Rio researchers have created an innovative landscape for public and private financing of road and rail projects in the North Region and in Brazil. This report fills a knowledge gap about the investment scenario of the land transport sector over the last decade.
Data Visualization
Interactive Landscape for Infrastructure Finance
Interactive Landscape about the financing of the land transport sector in the North Region and in Brazil.
Publication
Climate Risks and Opportunities
More than 75% of Indian districts are hotspots for extreme climate events. The white paper discusses the current state in Indian Financial sector and emerging directions.