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The document outlines a comprehensive framework for tracking global climate finance, focusing on real-economy investments in mitigation, adaptation, and dual-benefit activities. It defines a multi-layered taxonomy covering finance origins (domestic, international, indeterminate), actors (public, private, third-sector), and financial instruments. The methodology emphasizes a conservative approach to avoid double counting and carbon lock-in, utilizing a mix of primary project-level data and secondary market-sizing benchmarks from sources like the IEA and BNEF. Key 2025 updates include the integration of Luxembourg Green Exchange bond data, a new project-level hydrogen investment dataset, and the first-time inclusion of 2- and 3-wheeler electric vehicle sales in China and India.

The document provides the technical framework for tracking climate finance in agrifood systems, introducing an expanded taxonomy and a keyword tagging system to capture investments in non-traditional sectors. It distinguishes between 'comparable' and 'adjusted' flows to separate actual investment growth from improvements in data collection. Key data sources include the Global Landscape of Climate Finance (GLCF) and specific agrifood datasets, with a notable increase in finance attributed to energy systems supporting agrifood between 2019/20 and 2021/22.

The Corporate Climate Finance Playbook, developed by the Climate Policy Initiative and Salesforce, argues that meeting global climate targets requires corporations to move beyond piecemeal efforts toward an integrated climate finance strategy. The document categorizes financial tools into capital deployment, capital management, and capital raising, providing a decision-making flowchart to match instruments to the innovation stage of a project and the company's risk appetite. It highlights best practices from companies like Autodesk, Microsoft, and Cisco Foundation, emphasizing the use of blended finance to de-risk early-stage technologies and scale existing solutions.

The methodology brief describes a framework for tracking public financial institutions' climate commitments, categorizing them into targets and pledges (such as Paris-aligned, net zero, and exclusion policies) and institutional strategies. It details a data collection process involving automated scraping of institutional websites, news articles, and the analysis of over 120 sustainability and annual reports for 70 entities representing USD 20.4 trillion in assets.

The document distinguishes between climate misinformation (unintentional) and disinformation (intentional), adopting the Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) definition. It identifies two primary drivers for creating this content: protecting fossil fuel profits and exploiting the 'attention economy' for revenue or influence. The guide focuses on 'Persuadables'—the approximately 69% of the UK population who are neither activists nor deniers—and categorises misinformation into four types: climate denial, climate delay, greenwashing, and conspiracy theories. Climate delay is identified as the most common and effective form in the UK, often employing 'The Cost Of Net Zero' frame or exploiting 'culture wars' through the 'eco-hypocrite' narrative. Greenwashing is highlighted as a specific form of delay driven by large marketing budgets, while climate conspiracy theories, such as 'climate lockdowns' and opposition to '15-minute cities', are noted as growing risks.

The document defines agricultural transformation as the process of an agri-food system moving from being "subsistence-oriented and farm-centred" to one that is "more commercialized, productive and off-farm-centred." It outlines a comprehensive taxonomy of terms across several categories, including agricultural credit, knowledge systems, markets, and subsidies. It also defines broader macroeconomic and governance terms such as monetary policy, inflation, exchange rates, and human capital, as well as specific rural infrastructure needs like irrigation and electrification. The glossary emphasizes that inclusive transformation is characterized by "poverty reduction, increased food security, and improvements in gender equality and women’s empowerment."