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Landscape of Climate Finance in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s climate finance landscape tracks mitigation and adaptation flows from 2019–2023, revealing gaps between investment needs and available finance. It highlights sources, uses, and priorities that support climate action in one of Africa’s fastest-growing and climate-vulnerable economies.
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Closing the Rural Credit Divide: Pathways to Increase PRONAF Access for Smallholders
In this publication, researchers from CPI/PUC-RIO identify the main barriers to credit and outline pathways to expand family farmers’ access to PRONAF in order to boost sustainable production and climate resilience.
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Unlocking Finance for Nature-based Solutions in Indian Cities
Guidebook and repository by the India Forum for NbS providing a three-step framework to assess policy, strengthen project models, and unlock finance for urban Nature-based Solutions in Indian cities. Includes best practices and stakeholder insights to support scale and investment readiness.
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2025 Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Impact Report
From 2014 to 2025, the Lab incubated 87 climate finance instruments designed to address barriers to investment in climate sectors. Together, these solutions have mobilized USD 4.4B in climate investment, with USD 1.83B from private investors.
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Unlocking Climate Risk Insurance: The Role of Public Development Banks
Rising climate risks demand stronger economic resilience. While vital for everything from small farms to infrastructure, insurance remains limited in EMDEs. Our report explores how scaling these solutions can protect physical assets and unlock capital for high-risk markets.
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Alternative Models for Transmission Financing in Indonesia
This report evaluates alternative project financing models that could enable greater private investment in Indonesia grid infrastructure, allowing risk sharing, improved access to capital, and enhanced financial sustainability for PLN.
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DBSA: Financial instrument design for an effective carbon market in South Africa
The Development Bank of Southern Africa, in partnership with the FiCS Innovation Lab Incubator, has developed two novel financial instruments designed to transform carbon credits from complex assets into de-risked, bankable products.
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The Regenerative Agriculture Fund: A scalable blueprint for Agri-innovation in EMDEs
EMDE agriculture faces a double-bind: it’s a climate risk driver and its biggest victim. BDMG’s RA Fund breaks this cycle. Using a three-tiered approach to de-risk, empower, and align incentives, this model turns policy into reality. Download the report to explore the future of agri-innovation...
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Can carbon finance work for smallholder agriculture?
This blog identifies three barriers to the efficacy of voluntary carbon markets for agrifood systems—unreliable corporate demand, high upfront costs, and asymmetric market incentives—and discuss what needs to shift to unlock the potential of carbon credits for agrifood systems.
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Climate finance in China - can adaptation investment mirror the successes of mitigation finance?
Against a backdrop of more frequent and intensifying climate hazards threatening long-term growth and prosperity, China has built a robust enabling environment. The opportunity now lies in translating ambition into progress on adaptation finance.
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Driving Jobs, Economic Growth, and Climate Action: The Role of Clean Mobility in India
India’s industrial growth is increasingly aligned with climate goals, with the auto sector central to GDP and jobs. Yet oil dependence and rising emissions pose risks—making EV transition critical for energy security, competitiveness, and low-carbon growth, with both opportunities and transition cha
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Catalyzing Green Capital After COP30: Lessons from Brasília and Belém for Scaling Productive Restoration in Brazil
This brief identifies pathways to scale bankable investment in Brazil’s degraded pasture restoration, drawing on discussions from two events.
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Guidebook on Implementing Sustainable MSME Business Models: Mitigation Action
The Guidebook on Implementing Sustainable MSME Business Models: Mitigation Action is a comprehensive reference for micro, small, and medium enterprises, financial institutions, and other stakeholders in supporting the transformation of MSMEs toward sustainable and inclusive business practices.
