Private Finance
The private financial sector is a crucial component of achieving our global climate and sustainability goals, from the power of directing its own assets and investments, to its leverage in evaluating “counterparties,” in other words the clients and assets in its portfolios.
CPI collaborates directly with the private financial sector—asset managers, asset owners, banks, corporates, and insurers—to establish frameworks, increase transparency, and develop new financial models and instruments that accelerate the transition of global finance flows towards net zero emissions and climate-resilient development. The effectiveness of our private financial sector work is enhanced by CPI’s ability to bring key actors outside the private sector to the table, ensuring coordinated, mutually-agreeable approaches that accelerate adoption and implementation.
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Net Zero Finance Tracker
The NZFT is a first-of-its-kind collaborative and interactive data platform that aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of how private financial institutions are progressing on their climate commitments and delivering impact on the ground.
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Private Financial Institutions’ Commitments to Paris Alignment
A thorough tracking and analysis of public commitments to address climate change from more than 350 private financial actors across four financial sectors (asset owner, asset manager, commercial bank, insurer).
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Private Financial Institutions’ Paris Alignment Commitments: 2022 Update
A thorough tracking and analysis of public commitments to address climate change from more than 450 private financial actors across four financial sectors (asset owner, asset manager, commercial bank, insurer).
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Net Zero Finance Tracker
The Net Zero Finance Tracker (NZFT) provides the most robust and transparent data on the financial sector’s climate transition, informing policy direction, investment strategy, and advocacy decisions.
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Tracking the Transition: Global private financial institutions’ progress toward net zero
Financial Institutions (FIs) are essential enablers of transition efforts, as their core function as owners and financiers dictates whether the global economy transitions to low-carbon, resilient pathways or remains locked into vulnerable, high-emission systems. Based on CPI’s NZFT data, this report analyses transition progress on 1,500 private FIs from 67 countries.
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The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2025
The South African Landscape of Climate Finance 2025 offers the first biannual update of national climate finance flows, analyzing how funds are mobilized, channeled, and deployed across sectors. It provides evidence to help policymakers, investors, and partners scale, coordinate, and target finance more effectively to drive South Africa’s Just Transition and development goals.
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Tracking Private Investment for Adaptation: The Need, Our Progress, and Next Steps
Private finance for adaptation is increasingly vital—growing these flows requires a better understanding of how much is going where. This blog post highlights CPI’s recent evolution of related tracking methodologies, and next steps to deepen and broaden the data coverage.
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Green Guarantee Group
The Green Guarantee Group aims to produce solution-oriented recommendations for decision-makers, fostering a significant increase in the use of green guarantees. CPI will provide high-level advisory and produce reports identifying key challenges, innovative solutions, and recommendations for scaling green guarantees ahead of COP30.
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Scaling Up Green Guarantees: Recommendations by the Green Guarantee Group
Despite record growth in global climate investment, the finance gap remains vast, especially in emerging markets and developing economies. Guarantees are among the most effective tools to mobilize private capital for climate action but remain underused. This report by the Green Guarantee Group offers clear, practical recommendations to scale their deployment where they are needed most.
