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The Lab selects eight new climate finance solutions expected to unlock USD 600M for emerging markets
Solutions span emerging markets from the Andean Amazon and Brazil to Vietnam, India, Madagascar, Mexico, and the Philippines. Selected from a record 1,172 global applications, these ideas target nature restoration, resilient agriculture, and industrial decarbonization.
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Financing Sustainable Agriculture in the Cerrado Biome
In this report researchers from CPI/PUC-RIO combine quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify key conditions under which financial instruments can more effectively drive sustainable agricultural development, as well as the structural barriers that must be addressed to enhance their impact.
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Tracking Capital Mobilized by Innovative Climate Finance Vehicles
This methodology brief outlines the comprehensive approach CPI has established for tracking capital mobilized by CPI-supported vehicles.
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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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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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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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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.
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Scaling Nature-based Solutions Finance Through Standardization, Data, and Transparent Processes
This blog unpacks the persistent barriers to NbS investment, and what it will take to overcome them.
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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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Working Paper: Exploring Financial Institutions' Action on Methane
Methane abatement is a high-impact, underfinanced climate lever, and financial institutions are key to driving related investment. This working paper provides a review of the transition plans and climate disclosures of 10 leading banks and institutional investors across targets and implementation.
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An Introduction to CorporateTransition Assessments in India
Developed by RMI and CPI, the India-specific CTA Playbook helps financial institutions assess corporate transition risk at the asset level, evaluate decarbonization feasibility, and align lending with credible, bankable low-carbon pathways in India’s net-zero transition.
