Tracking Climate Finance by Sector
CPI is the leading authority on tracking and analyzing climate finance flows. We work to assess the scale of finance, identify the main actors in the market, reveal investment gaps, and highlight opportunities to mobilize finance to fulfill investment potential in key sectors with the potential for positive climate impact.
Our sectoral climate finance tracking work covers a wide range of topics, including:
- the first comprehensive analysis of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems globally;
- a comprehensive analysis of commitments flowing to energy access in high impact countries;
- the first comprehensive assessment of methane abatement finance;
- and innovative methods to better measure finance for climate adaptation.
Featured work
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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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Landscape of Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems
This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems globally.
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Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance 2023
This third edition of the biannual joint report by IRENA and CPI analyses investment trends by technology, sector, region, source of finance and financial instrument in the period 2013-2020.
Latest work
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean doubled to USD 108 billion in 2024, but growth has plateaued and investment remains below what the region needs. The report reveals where finance is flowing, where the gaps are, and where capital can help accelerate the region’s climate transition.
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Top-down Climate Finance Needs
CPI collects and standardizes data on climate finance needs from a wide variety of scenarios to provide a comprehensive and unique understanding of the scale of the climate finance gaps in different sectors.
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Top-down Climate Finance Needs Data Dashboard
This dashboard tracks estimated mitigation climate finance required across different sectors to keep the average global temperature rise within 1.5°C by the end of the century.
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Responding to Risk: Tracking Financial Institutions’ Progress on Adaptation and Resilience
CPI’s new report addresses the lack of a consistent benchmark in adaptation & resilience (A&R) reporting for financial institutions by identifying leading A&R practices across eight frameworks, as well as the data required to measure true progress.
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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.
