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This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative/Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (CPI/PUC-Rio) presents 13 proposals to increase the sustainability of Brazil's 2025/2026 Harvest Plan (Plano Safra). The recommendations focus on aligning rural credit and risk management with climate goals, specifically by restricting credit for deforestation, integrating the Brazilian Sustainable Taxonomy, improving pasture recovery monitoring, and expanding credit access for vulnerable small-scale producers.

This case study by the Climate Policy Initiative, coordinated by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), analyzes waste management business models in Indonesia and Brazil. It highlights a significant funding gap for organic waste management compared to waste-to-energy incinerators and argues that decentralized, community-based, and informal models offer greater cost efficiency and co-benefits, despite facing financial strain and a lack of legal certainty.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides a financial analysis of organic waste management business models in Indonesia and Brazil. It compares decentralized models—such as community-based groups, waste picker cooperatives, and home composting—against centralized government and private sector operations. The analysis focuses on the Levelized Cost of Waste Management (LCOW), operational efficiency, and funding structures to identify pathways for scaling methane abatement in the waste sector.

This guide provides a strategic playbook for concessional capital providers to mobilize investment in climate-smart agrifood systems. It identifies a significant financing gap—with global climate finance for the sector reaching only USD 95 billion in 2021/22—and proposes five 'investment plays' to address market failures. These strategies include system-level alignment with national goals, large-scale natural capital restoration, strengthening shared infrastructure, expanding technical assistance for innovation, and scaling local financial intermediaries. The document includes a four-step framework for investor action and detailed case studies of blended finance vehicles operating across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), commissioned by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), provides a financial analysis of organic solid waste management (SWM) business models in Indonesia and Brazil. Through case studies in Bandung and various Brazilian municipalities, the report compares the cost-efficiency, funding structures, and viability of government-operated, private, and decentralized models (such as community groups and waste picker cooperatives). It highlights that while large-scale projects receive the vast majority of methane abatement finance, decentralized models often show greater cost efficiency and significant social co-benefits, despite facing severe financial vulnerabilities and limited access to capital.

This technical briefing by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) examines the impact of India's transition to electric vehicles (EVs) on micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) within the auto-component manufacturing (ACM) sector. While the shift threatens traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) component markets, it creates opportunities for MSMEs to diversify into high-value EV parts. The report identifies critical barriers—including financing gaps, technical skill shortages, and policy exclusions—and proposes the establishment of an Automotive Component Technology Upgradation Financing Facility (AC-TUFF) to support MSMEs in this transition.

This white paper proposes a governance framework for Indonesia's Sustainable Finance Committee (SFC) to align fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policies. It aims to mobilize USD 285 billion in investment by 2030 to meet ENDC targets, suggesting a three-tier institutional structure and the use of sectoral coalitions to create bankable green projects.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides a financial analysis of solid waste management business models, focusing on organic waste and methane reduction through case studies in Indonesia and Brazil. It compares government-operated, private, and community-led decentralized models, evaluating their cost-effectiveness, funding structures, and operational viability.

This executive summary from the Climate Policy Initiative proposes a framework for 'urban-inclusive country platforms' to bridge the financing gap for urban climate action. It argues that national governments should integrate subnational and urban priorities into the design and governance of country platforms to better align development finance with local mitigation and resilience needs.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative provides a baseline of climate finance flows in Nigeria for 2021/22, highlighting a significant gap between tracked investments and the funding required to meet the country's energy transition and infrastructure goals.

The 'Playbook for Integrating Gender into Climate Finance Vehicles' provides a strategic framework for embedding gender considerations into climate finance instruments to improve both social equity and financial performance. It argues that women are disproportionately affected by climate change but are also key drivers of mitigation and adaptation, noting that gender-diverse leadership and investing teams often yield better environmental and financial outcomes. The guide outlines a four-step process—Gender Analysis, Gender Strategy, Gender Action Plan, and Monitoring and Evaluation—to move climate finance from being gender-biased or unaware to being gender-responsive or transformative.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative outlines the environmental impact of agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the financial barriers preventing their transition to sustainability, and how blended finance mechanisms can unlock private investment to address these challenges.

The Green Banks Design Guide provides a framework for selecting and supporting green bank formats in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), detailing four primary institutional models and three options for international support to accelerate their development.

This guide by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) examines the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), the operational arm of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST). It provides recommendations for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to improve coordination between finance ministries, sectoral ministries, and international development partners to better integrate climate risks into macroeconomic policy and catalyze climate finance.

The State of Green Banks 2025 report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) analyzes the global landscape of green banks, focusing on their role in bridging a USD 7.4 trillion annual climate funding gap. Based on survey data from 51 public financial institutions, the report identifies four primary models for green banks—standalone de novo banks, enhanced public development banks (PDBs), green facilities within PDBs, and country platforms—and evaluates their suitability for different economic contexts, particularly in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative, PUC-RIO, and Amazon 2030 analyzes how Amazon deforestation reduces rainfall and river flow, thereby decreasing electricity generation and revenue for Brazil's two largest hydroelectric power plants (HPPs), Itaipu and Belo Monte.

This document introduces an analysis by the CCFLA to map the global landscape of project preparation facilities (PPFs) as of 2024, aiming to identify gaps and increase collaboration to help cities develop bankable, climate-resilient infrastructure projects.

The CCFLA scoping paper highlights a critical funding gap for urban climate adaptation, noting that only 1% of tracked urban climate finance in 2021/22 went to adaptation. It identifies key barriers including cities' lack of technical capacity to develop investible projects, restrictive mandates for financial institutions, and the exclusion of cities from National Adaptation Plans. The report recommends improving project matchmaking, documenting viable business models, standardizing taxonomies, and enhancing the enabling environment to attract private investment.

This research paper by the Climate Policy Initiative outlines a framework and recommendations for scaling transition finance to decarbonize India's iron and steel sector, which is the country's largest carbon-emitting industrial sector.

This research paper evaluates the international alignment and interoperability of the South African Green Finance Taxonomy (SA GFT). While the SA GFT shows high alignment regarding the 'Make Substantial Contribution' (MSC) principle, it faces challenges in usability and adoption concerning 'Do No Significant Harm' (DNSH) and 'Minimum Social Safeguards' (MSS) pillars, as well as gaps in governance and disclosure frameworks.