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This guide, published by the Center for International Environmental Law, provides civil society organizations with tools and advice to ensure that the 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are ambitious and based on human rights.

This guide by the Climate Bonds Initiative outlines a five-step process for issuing green bonds, emphasizing the necessity of allocating proceeds to green projects or assets regardless of the issuer's own 'green' status. It details various bond types, eligibility criteria for projects, and the importance of independent verification and transparent reporting.

This guide outlines the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme for issuing green bonds in the bioenergy sector, with a specific focus on the Brazilian market. It details the requirements for certification, the process for issuance, and the technical criteria for identifying eligible bioenergy projects and assets.

This guide by the Climate Bonds Initiative outlines the best practices for issuing green bonds, with a specific focus on the solar energy sector in Brazil. It details the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme, providing a step-by-step process for issuers to achieve certification, eligibility criteria for solar projects, and reporting requirements to ensure alignment with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) is a framework designed to identify, classify, and qualify investments that contribute to climate adaptation and resilience. It provides a structured system for financial institutions, governments, and corporations to mobilize finance toward projects that mitigate physical climate risks across seven key themes, including infrastructure, health, and natural systems.

The Climate Bonds Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) is a framework designed to classify, identify, and qualify investments that contribute to climate adaptation and resilience. It provides a structured approach for financial institutions, public bodies, and firms to allocate capital toward resilience, ensuring investments make a substantial contribution to climate resilience while avoiding maladaptation and significant harm to climate mitigation goals.

This guide by the Global Climate and Health Alliance details the intersection of the climate crisis and public health, emphasizing the vulnerabilities of children and marginalized groups. It advocates for the integration of health priorities into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and outlines how mitigation and adaptation strategies in energy, transport, agriculture, and urban planning can yield significant health and economic benefits.

This guide from the Climate Policy Initiative explains the role of concessional and private equity in financing climate change mitigation and adaptation. It details how equity can be used as a risk-absorbing instrument to mobilize commercial capital, particularly in emerging markets, and outlines the capacity and regulatory requirements for governments to effectively deploy these instruments.

This guide from the Climate Policy Initiative explains debt-for-climate swaps, which are financial mechanisms that cancel, exchange, or refinance sovereign debt in return for commitments to invest the savings into climate mitigation, adaptation, or conservation. The document details the different types of swaps (bilateral and tripartite), the internal and regulatory capacities required by Ministries of Finance to implement them, and the financial market conditions that influence their viability. It also outlines the risks, pricing drivers, and common challenges associated with these instruments, while providing examples of successful implementations in countries like Ecuador, Belize, and Seychelles.

This guide by the Climate Policy Initiative explains the mechanics, risks, and implementation requirements for green bonds, which are fixed-income instruments used to finance projects with environmental or climate benefits. It details the capacity needs for sovereign and corporate issuers, the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs), and strategies for overcoming market barriers in emerging and shallow economies.

This guide by the Climate Policy Initiative explains the role of guarantees as financial instruments to transfer risk from borrowers or lenders to third parties, such as multilateral development banks or governments. It details the types of risks covered, the impact on borrowing costs, the institutional and regulatory capacities required for effective implementation, and the specific challenges facing the deployment of guarantees for climate-related projects in emerging and mature markets.

This guide from the Climate Policy Initiative explains parametric insurance, a financial tool that provides rapid, fixed payouts based on predetermined triggers (such as wind speed or rainfall) rather than assessed losses. It details the instrument's role in maintaining fiscal liquidity and debt sustainability, the capacity requirements for governments to implement it, and the various commercial and concessional providers available globally.

This guide explains the mechanics, applications, and implementation requirements of securitization as a tool for climate finance. It details how pooling fragmented green assets into tradable securities can mobilize institutional capital, recycle balance sheets for originators, and manage credit risk through tranching. The document provides a framework for assessing financial market readiness across shallow, emerging, and mature markets, and outlines the specific capacity needs for ministries of finance and regulators to support these instruments.

This guide explains how on-bill financing (OBF) can increase the adoption of distributed solar energy by removing financial barriers for families and businesses, particularly those in underserved communities.

This guide explains the mechanism of on-bill financing, where repayments for energy-related upgrades are integrated into monthly utility bills, and highlights its potential for promoting equity and accessibility.

A guide by Friends of the Earth International designed to help indigenous peoples and local communities understand and resist carbon markets, which the organization characterizes as a false climate solution that threatens land rights and ecosystems.

A guide by Friends of the Earth International designed to help communities understand and resist carbon markets, which the organization characterizes as a false climate solution that threatens community rights and ecosystems.

This guide, published by Friends of the Earth International, serves as a reference manual for activists to understand the terminology and jargon used in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. It provides alphabetical definitions of key trade terms, agreements, and institutional bodies, focusing on the legal and procedural framework of the international trading system.

The Africa Green Bond Toolkit is a practical guide developed by FSD Africa and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) to assist African capital markets in issuing green bonds according to international standards. It outlines the structural differences between green and vanilla bonds, provides a step-by-step issuance process, and details the requirements for creating a Green Bond Framework. The guide emphasizes the role of external verification and certification to ensure transparency and attract institutional investors to climate-resilient projects across the continent.

The 'Kit d’Outils d’Obligations Verte Afrique' is a practical guide developed by FSD Africa and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) to assist African issuers in emitting green bonds. It outlines the structural similarities between green and conventional bonds, while detailing the specific requirements for the allocation of proceeds to environmental projects. The guide provides a comprehensive framework for the issuance process, including the development of a Green Bond Framework, independent verification, and post-issuance reporting, while highlighting successful case studies from South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria.