Tracking Climate Finance by Geography
As governments work to implement the Paris Agreement, they need to understand domestic flows of finance so they can better align them with their climate goals, identify gaps, and unlock the private investment needed for green, resilient development.
Our tracking work supports these efforts and is used to provide robust analysis of how much climate finance is flowing in and to high impact emerging economies at the regional, national and subnational level. We work directly with governments to identify the enabling conditions that are most likely to drive investment to support low carbon, climate resilient growth.
To date, more than 15 countries have used our methodology to track financial progress on NDCs, including:
Featured work
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The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2023
The report aims to provide consistent information on current climate investments in South Africa to highlight existing gaps, spotlight opportunities, and provide a foundation to mobilize and scale climate finance.
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Africa
The most comprehensive overview of climate investment flows in Africa.
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Landscape of Green Finance in India 2022
An update to India’s first-ever effort to track green investment flows that measures both public and private sources of capital for FY 2019-20
Latest work
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Mapping the landscape of net-zero nature-positive finance: A review of definitions and frameworks
This report reviews global definitions and frameworks for net-zero, nature-positive, and climate-nature finance, mapping where they align and where gaps limit consistent implementation. It establishes a shared knowledge base for the Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator Integrated Programme.
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Assessing Climate Finance Quality in Practice: Lessons from Six Cases
This report examines six public climate finance case studies to explore what constitutes high-quality climate finance in practice. It analyzes design choices, implementation, and trade-offs to identify lessons for assessing and improving the quality of public climate finance.
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Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2026
The most comprehensive overview of global climate finance flows, provided by Climate Policy Initiative.
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Assessing the Quality of Adaptation Finance
A decision-support tool helping public finance providers in allocating scarce resources strategically to maximize adaptation and development outcomes.
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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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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.
