Tracking the Quality of Climate Finance: From Theory to Practice

This research paper by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) proposes a quantitative approach to tracking the quality of public climate finance. It builds upon a three-level conceptual framework—project, market, and system levels—to identify practical indicators that can reduce subjectivity in quality judgments and improve coordination among public finance providers.

• While methodologies for tracking the quantity of climate finance are well-established, common approaches for assessing and tracking the quality of public climate finance are still in their early stages.
• The lack of harmonized quality assessment and comparison capabilities hinders the coordination between actors and the strategic allocation of limited public climate finance based on evidence from previous interventions.
• CPI utilizes a three-level conceptual framework—project, market, and system levels—to track how finance drives sustained transformational change toward equitable, climate-resilient, and low-emission economies, rather than just supporting isolated projects.
• The paper aims to establish a quantitative basis for quality assessment by distilling practical indicators from existing monitoring approaches used by public climate finance institutions to reduce subjectivity and allow for aggregation across different institutions.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2025). Tracking the Quality of Climate Finance: From Theory to Practice. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-the-quality-of-climate-finance-from-theory-to-practice/

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Tracking the Quality of Climate Finance: From Theory to Practice. 2025. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-the-quality-of-climate-finance-from-theory-to-practice/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2025tracking, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Tracking the Quality of Climate Finance: From Theory to Practice}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-the-quality-of-climate-finance-from-theory-to-practice/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }