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Landscape of Green Finance in India 2024
The Landscape of Green Finance in India tracks flows to real economy sectors—clean energy, clean transportation, and energy efficiency—as well as to some adaptation sectors. The study considers both public and private sources of capital—domestic as well as international—to track the flow of finance from the source to the end beneficiaries through different instruments.
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Waste not: Time to rapidly scale methane abatement finance in the waste sector
Methane is has 86 times the warming potential of CO₂ over 20 years, and the waste sector accounts for 20% of human-caused methane emissions. Despite its significant role in climate change, methane abatement in the waste sector remains critically underfunded. In this blog, Dennis Zabeida and Pedro de Aragão Fernandes explore the challenges and opportunities in scaling methane abatement finance.
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The shifting landscape of climate coalitions: challenges, opportunities, and the role of data
Our latest blog explores the current state of climate coalitions, the implications of member withdrawals, and why data-driven platforms like the Net Zero Finance Tracker (NZFT) are essential to sustaining and accelerating the global transition to a net zero economy.
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Building AI/ML tools to track public development banks' climate ambition
This blog outlines CPI’s new methodology utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to process large primary datasets, leading to deeper analytical insights into PDBs’ climate commitments.
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Unlocking transition finance for achieving net-zero emissions in Indonesia
This deep dive into Indonesia’s climate-aligned finance policy nexus explores investment gaps, barriers to sustainable finance, and policy recommendations to streamline financial sector policies to scale up climate-aligned investment and enable alternative financing instruments to support Indonesia’s decarbonization.
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Decarbonizing India's Steel Industry: How Transition Finance Can Help
India’s steel sector is the largest industrial emitter, contributing 10-12% of the country’s total carbon emissions. Learn how transition finance can enable a gradual shift toward low-carbon steel production, bridging the gap until commercially viable green technologies emerge.
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2025 Policy Bulletin: Climate Finance for Development
This policy bulletin summarizes key findings on how PDBs’ contribution to low-emissions and
climate-resilient development can be accelerated and scaled to make progress toward the global agenda
for sustainable development.
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Combatting Deforestation Portfolio
Discover the publications in CPI/PUC-Rio combatting deforestation portfolio.
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Financial Instruments Portfolio
Discover the publications in CPI/PUC-Rio Financial Instruments Portfolio.
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Sustainable Finance Flows to India’s Agriculture Sector
This report introduces a comprehensive sustainable agriculture framework developed using a value-chain approach to analyze relevant sectors, activities, policies, and key initiatives. It provides a detailed examination of financial flows in the agriculture sector during FY1 2020–21 and FY 2021-22, offering insights into public and private finance sources, intermediaries, and end-use activities across the entire agriculture value chain.
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Energizing Private Capital: Innovations in Guarantee Offerings for Climate Finance
This policy brief identifies key barriers to the adoption of green guarantees and highlights existing solutions to address these challenges. The report also draws key takeaways and recommendations and lists policy-related questions for further consideration.