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The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025
The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025 report highlights both the challenges and opportunities for air quality action amid major shifts in global development finance. Drawing on the latest data and expert insights, it tracks five years of international funding trends and explores how future financing can drive cleaner air worldwide.
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Bridging the Adaptation Finance Gap in Asia
Asia faces a critical climate adaptation finance gap, with only USD 34 billion flowing annually against an estimated need of USD 431 billion. Scaling concessional finance, strengthening local leadership, and leveraging innovative tools like callable capital are essential to build climate resilience and secure a sustainable future for the region.
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The Forest-Climate Nexus: A Fit-for-Purpose Framework for Climate Impact
This study presents a financial architecture tailored to meet the different realities of tropical forests across the world, and proposes a Reversing Deforestation Mechanism (RDM) to fill a critical gap that would advance restoration and transform the role of forests from a climate risk to a climate solution.
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Top-down Climate Finance Needs Data Dashboard
This dashboard tracks estimated mitigation climate finance required across different sectors to keep the average global temperature rise within 1.5°C by the end of the century.
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Where Does Brazil Stand with the Implementation of the Forest Code? – 2025 Edition
A new publication by CPI/PUC-Rio presents the executive summary of the report “Where Are We in the Implementation of the Forest Code?”, which provides an updated overview of the status of CAR and PRA implementation in all Brazilian states.
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The Forest-Climate Nexus for the Brazilian Amazon
CPI/PUC-RIO and AmazON 2030 show how the RDM can boost the Amazon’s economy by turning degraded areas into opportunities for revenue and sustainable development.
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Data Visualization (The Forest-Climate Nexus: A Fit-for-Purpose Framework for Climate Impact)
Study by CPI/PUC-RIO presents a financial architecture tailored to meet the different realities of tropical forests across the world, and proposes a Reversing Deforestation Mechanism (RDM) to fill a critical gap that would advance restoration and transform the role of forests from a climate risk to a climate solution.
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When the River Runs Dry: How Amazon Deforestation Threatens the Brazilian Economy
Study by CPI/PUC-Rio and Amazônia 2030 investigates the impacts of Amazon forest deforestation on strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy.
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Investment Needs Of Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition: A Framework
Built on the four pillars of a just energy transition — recognitional justice, restorative justice, distributive justice, and procedural justice — the framework is specifically tailored to Indonesia’s socio-economic realities and addresses both the risks of early coal retirement and broader socioeconomic opportunities presented by renewable energy development.
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Biodiversity-Based Biotechnology in Brazil: Regulatory and Institutional Challenges
New study by CPI/PUC-RIO and Amazon 2030 presents a regulatory and institutional mapping of biodiversity-based biotechnology, focusing on the Access and Benefit-Sharing framework.
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State and Trends of Climate Adaptation Finance in Small Island Developing States
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face urgent adaptation needs yet remain underserved by climate finance. This report examines persistent barriers, from high transaction costs to limited private investment, and outlines priority actions for the global finance community to dramatically scale and improve adaptation finance for these highly vulnerable countries.
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Microfinance for Climate Action
Microfinance, with its deep community roots, can bridge climate vulnerability and green growth. By enabling climate-smart livelihoods, clean energy access, and risk protection for low-income households, MFIs can simultaneously build resilience for clients and unlock new pathways for sustainable finance.
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Roadmap for an Automotive Component Technology Upgradation Financing Facility
India’s transition to electric mobility presents a decisive window to build an advanced domestic manufacturing ecosystem while safeguarding jobs and competitiveness across the auto-component supply chain. Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) assesses that micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which act as the backbone of the automotive component industry, must rapidly upgrade their technology, processes, and skills to participate effectively in electric vehicle (EV) value chains.
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