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The 'Corporate Transition Investment Guide' (May 2024) by the Climate Bonds Initiative proposes a standardized classification system to help financial institutions assess and categorize corporate exposures based on their decarbonization transition maturity and credibility. The guide aims to simplify complex existing frameworks into a practical tool for tracking progress toward net-zero goals.

The 'Agri-Food Deforestation and Conversion Free (DCF) Sourcing Criteria', published by the Climate Bonds Initiative on April 12, 2024, provides a framework for certifying agri-food entities that can prove their commodity sourcing is free from deforestation and natural ecosystem conversion. The criteria are designed to align with and expand upon the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), extending requirements to all natural ecosystems and applying them at the entity level globally.

The Agri-Food Deforestation and Conversion Free (DCF) Sourcing FAQs provide a rule set for certifying agri-food entities that source commodities from land not subject to deforestation or natural ecosystem conversion after 31 December 2020. The guide details eligibility for supply chain actors, traceability requirements based on country risk, and the annual verification process required to maintain certification.

This report by FSD Africa evaluates the Africa Regulatory Support Programme (ARSP), which provided technical assistance to capital markets regulators across Africa from September 2018 to March 2023. The document outlines key lessons from interventions in eight countries and three regional blocs, emphasizing the need to balance international best practices with local context, the challenges of regulatory and market capacity, and the importance of sequencing and clustering interventions for maximum impact.

This report by Trend Asia examines the environmental and social impacts of the Obi Island Nickel Industrial Zone in Indonesia and the indirect role of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in funding these activities through financial intermediaries. The document alleges that the industrial zone has caused severe ecological damage, health crises, and human rights violations, while the IFC has failed to ensure its clients adhere to sustainability and climate standards.

This briefing by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) and Agroicone presents proposals to integrate sustainability and climate resilience into Brazil's 2023/24 Agricultural Plan (Plano Safra). The document outlines three primary sets of recommendations: aligning rural credit rules with sustainability goals, improving agricultural risk management through insurance subsidies, and prioritizing the allocation of Constitutional Financing Funds (FCFs) for small producers and low-carbon practices.

The Climate Bonds Guide to Certification outlines a voluntary labelling scheme designed to ensure investments are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It provides a framework for certifying Use of Proceeds debt instruments, assets, and entities based on science-based eligibility criteria and independent verification.

The 'Climate Bonds Guide to Certification ASSETS' describes a voluntary labelling scheme designed to verify that investments, assets, and entities are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. The guide details the eligibility, types, and processes for certifying assets independently of their financing.

The 'Climate Bonds Guide to Certification' outlines the framework for certifying sustainability-linked debt instruments (SLDs) under the Climate Bonds Standard. The scheme aims to ensure that these instruments are consistent with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C by requiring science-based eligibility criteria, transition plans, and governance structures.

This thought piece examines the financial barriers and business cases for mobilizing investments in low-carbon industrial production within the Global South, highlighting the need for policy interventions, innovative business models, and custom solutions to address risks that are more complex than those found in the renewable energy sector.

This guide from the Climate Bonds Initiative outlines the opportunities for property certification in Tokyo and Japan, detailing how the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme can be used to attract investors and drive the decarbonisation of the built environment.

The Climate Bonds Standard 4.0 is a voluntary labeling mechanism developed by the Climate Bonds Initiative to certify debt instruments, assets, and entities as aligned with the Paris Agreement. It provides a science-based framework for certifying Use of Proceeds (UoP) instruments, non-financial legal entities, and Sustainability-Linked Debt (SLD), requiring independent verification by authorized verifiers to ensure transparency and climate alignment.

The Climate Bonds Guide to Certification ENTITIES outlines a voluntary labelling scheme for non-financial corporate entities to demonstrate alignment with 1.5°C climate goals. It defines two certification levels—Aligned (Level 1) and Transition (Level 2)—requiring that 90% of an entity's activities be eligible and supported by credible transition plans. Certification lasts five years, subject to annual external verification.

This document consists of three annexes to the 2023 Forest Declaration Assessment. It details sustainability schemes in the mining sector, provides estimates for green and 'gray' forest finance, and discusses the implementation of green budgeting and risk assessment tools in the public sector.

The 2023 Forest Declaration Assessment provides recommendations for governments, companies, and financial institutions to shift the global forest trajectory toward the 2030 forest goals. It emphasizes the need for a radical transformation of economic models, increased data transparency, the redirection of finance from harmful to protective activities, and the adoption of rights-based governance that prioritizes Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative evaluates the readiness of major commercial financial institutions in Indonesia to assess and disclose climate-related risks and opportunities. Based on a survey conducted between September 2021 and June 2022, the report finds that while banks show high compliance with national sustainability reporting mandates (POJK 51/2017), they lack the depth of disclosure required by international benchmarks like the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The report highlights a gap between the growth of green portfolios and the actual integration of climate risk into financial statements and risk management frameworks.

This document is an annex to the 2022 Regional Assessment by the Forest Declaration Assessment, focusing on tracking progress toward forest goals in the Congo Basin. It details a monitoring framework consisting of 50 indicators across four themes—forest goals, sustainable production and development, forest financing, and forest governance—and provides a comparative summary of the laws, governing entities, and policies used to address deforestation in Cameroon, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo.

This guide details the methodology used by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) to screen and categorize self-labeled debt instruments for inclusion in the CBI Green Bond Database. The process ensures that included bonds align with the Climate Bonds Taxonomy and industry standards to support the goals of the Paris Agreement.

The Climate Finance Training Programme, running from November 2020 to March 2025, aims to build climate finance capacity for policymakers, academia, regulators, and financial market participants in Sub-Saharan Africa through a twinning arrangement between the UK and African academic institutions.

The Green Affordable Housing Finance instrument, proposed by Reall and analyzed by the Climate Policy Initiative, is a two-pronged financial mechanism designed to catalyze the construction and ownership of green affordable homes. It combines an Enabling Environment Facility (EEF) for technical assistance and direct construction finance with a Guarantee Facility that de-risks construction and mortgage loans for local financial institutions. The instrument will be piloted in Kenya in 2023, targeting the gap in sustainable housing for low- and informal-income households, before scaling to Nigeria, Uganda, India, and Pakistan.