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The 'General Guidance for Tracking Green Finance' provides a standardized framework for members of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) to track and report financial flows related to climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity. It establishes 'Common Principles' to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability, moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach toward granular, project-component-based tracking.

The 'Sectoral Guidance for Tracking Green Finance' (October 2024), commissioned by the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) and produced by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and Trinomics, provides a technical framework for national and regional development banks to track climate and biodiversity finance. The guide applies 'Common Principles' across five priority sectors: energy, transport, water, agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) and fisheries, and the urban sector. It details eligibility criteria for mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity activities, offering methodologies for ex-ante greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessments and financial quantification to ensure transparency and consistency in reporting.