Super Pollutants
Super pollutants—methane, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons among others—have a powerful impact on the climate, driving near-term warming far more intensely than carbon dioxide. Their potency means urgent abatement of super pollutants is a critical lever for achieving global climate goals. Due to its low cost and availability of existing technologies, controlling super pollutants is a unique opportunity for decision-makers to deliver immediate impact.
CPI engages across sectors and geographies to identify cost-effective measures, mobilize finance, and design enabling policies that can deliver deep reductions in methane and other super pollutants while supporting long-term climate and development goals.
Featured work
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The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025
The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025 report highlights both the challenges and opportunities for air quality action amid major shifts in global development finance. Drawing on the latest data and expert insights, it tracks five years of international funding trends and explores how future fi...
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Landscape of Methane Abatement Finance 2023
The latest insights on global methane abatement finance covering trends in 2021 and 2022
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Enabling Conditions for Scaling Up Solid Waste Management Financing: Case Studies in Indonesia and Brazil
In a study commissioned by GAIA, CPI assessed various business models of solid waste management in Indonesia and Brazil, with recommendation of enabling conditions to scale up their financing.
Latest work
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Working Paper: Exploring Financial Institutions' Action on Methane
Methane abatement is a high-impact, underfinanced climate lever, and financial institutions are key to driving related investment. This working paper provides a review of the transition plans and climate disclosures of 10 leading banks and institutional investors across targets and implementation.
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Methane Abatement in Sustainable Taxonomies
This joint CPI–Climate Bonds Initiative report delivers the first cross-regional review of how five sustainable finance taxonomies cover methane abatement. It identifies gaps, highlights best practices, and provides guidance to drive investment into high-impact mitigation.
Blog
Financing the fast wins: Indonesia’s opportunity to lead on methane through its Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
Methane is one of the fastest, most cost-effective levers for climate action—and Indonesia is uniquely positioned to lead. This analysis explores how the country’s upcoming Sustainable Finance Taxonomy update can embed clear criteria for methane abatement, unlocking capital for high-impact solutions...
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Fast-tracking finance to abate India’s SLCPs
Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) like methane, black carbon, and HFCs drive warming and pollution in India. Targeted action can quickly benefit climate, health, and food security, but progress is slowed by funding gaps, weak policies, and poor data. To accelerate SLCP cuts, India must align po...
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Waste not: Time to rapidly scale methane abatement finance in the waste sector
Methane has 86 times the warming potential of CO₂ over 20 years, and the waste sector accounts for 20% of human-caused methane emissions. Despite its significant role in climate change, methane abatement in the waste sector remains critically underfunded. In this blog, Dennis Zabeida and Pedro de Ar...
Data Visualization
Methane Abatement Finance
Bringing CPI’s recent Landscape of Methane Abatement Finance to life, this data visualization shows that funding for methane abatement is at its highest level yet, but needs to increase by at least 3.5x by 2030 and be targeted effectively to achieve global climate goals.
