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The summary of the 12th Meeting of the San Giorgio Group (SGG12), convened by the Climate Policy Initiative in March 2026, outlines a strategic framework to accelerate climate-development alignment. The meeting focused on moving from incremental interventions to systemic transformation by leveraging 'relevance, resilience, and resolve' to scale climate finance and improve country-level delivery.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs outlines priorities for Africa's adaptation finance under the South African G20 presidency. It highlights a severe funding gap, where Africa requires $187–359 billion annually but faces an 80% shortfall in adaptation investment. The document advocates for a shift from debt-creating loans to grant-based and concessional finance, leveraging G20 working groups and MDB reforms to support National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and locally led adaptation.

This executive summary details a high-level roundtable convened on March 1, 2024, to establish a climate finance dialogue agenda during Brazil's G20 presidency. The document outlines a roadmap for Brazil to leverage its leadership in the G20, BRICS, and COP30 to reform the international financial architecture, promote 'country platforms' for investment, and address gaps in adaptation and nature finance to support Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs).

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative assesses the role of ten Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in providing climate finance to cities in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs). It argues that while MDBs have increased overall climate finance, urban-specific funding has plateaued and remains insufficient to meet the projected USD 29.4 trillion in climate-related opportunities in L&MIC urban areas by 2030. The document provides five key areas for MDB reform to better support urban climate action, including shifting from project-based to programmatic approaches, increasing direct financing to cities, and scaling risk-mitigation instruments to mobilize private capital.

The Capital Mobilization Roadmap is a discussion draft by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) that outlines pathways to mobilize private capital for climate and development priorities. It focuses on four high-impact areas: reducing credit risk through purposeful guarantees, mitigating currency risk via market creation and local currency lending, scaling project development models to reduce development risk, and reforming Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) incentives to prioritize private sector mobilization over institutional volumes.