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This report by the Climate Policy Initiative evaluates five alternative project financing models to help Indonesia's state-owned electricity firm, PLN, meet the USD 24 billion investment requirement for its 2025–2034 transmission expansion goals.

The Climate Bonds’ Resilience Taxonomy (CBRT) is a classification system designed to help corporate infrastructure issuers identify and verify investments that contribute to climate adaptation and resilience. Currently in an interim phase with draft screening criteria, the CBRT covers over 1,400 investments across seven resilience themes, providing a framework for determining eligibility, alignment, and eligible costs for thematic bonds.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs compares the implementation of environmental, socioeconomic, and governance (ESG) standards in two Chinese-funded hydropower projects: the Bui Dam in Ghana and the Stung Tatay project in Cambodia. It examines China's domestic regulatory framework for hydropower and analyzes how local government capacity and transparency in the recipient countries influenced the success of ESG mitigation efforts.

This executive summary from RMI outlines the investment landscape for China's transition to carbon neutrality, identifying seven priority technology areas and estimating the associated market and infrastructure investment needs through 2050.

The Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (CIFI) issued a USD 200 million green bond programme on August 28, 2019, marking the first green bond issued in Panama.

This working paper analyzes infrastructure investment models in India and Brazil, specifically focusing on wind energy projects, to evaluate how centralized versus decentralized financial systems influence the cost and effectiveness of clean infrastructure finance.

The document identifies systemic failures in water resource planning, including top-down governance, a lack of municipal capacity for off-budget financing, and the failure of Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) to account for water availability and environmental impacts.

This brochure describes the activities and focus areas of the International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD) Economic Law and Policy Program, which provides technical expertise and policy advice to government officials in developing countries to foster equitable and environmentally sustainable economic development.