CPI’s Climate Finance Tracking Program provides the most comprehensive data and insights into finance flows supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes.
With time running out to close the climate investment gap, decision-makers require clear, comprehensive information on climate mitigation and adaptation finance. CPI’s unique analysis covers both public and private finance data, translating it into concise reporting and interactive data visualizations. Our research provides a baseline against which to measure progress towards levels of investment consistent with global climate goals.
Our work aims to provide governments, climate funds, development finance institutions, philanthropies, and private investors with accurate data on the current scale, sources, instruments, and uses of climate finance.
Our Focus
Flows
What is the current state of global climate finance?
Presenting the most comprehensive data available on global climate finance flows, including granular data by source, financial instrument, region, use, and sector.
Needs
How far are we to closing the climate investment gap?
Using both bottom-up and top-down analyses to understand the finance required by region, sector, and type of capital, and examining the roles of public and private investment in closing the climate finance gap.
Impact
What should be prioritized to improve impact and outcomes?
Creating frameworks and assessing historical data to understand the effectiveness and efficiency of climate-aligned and unaligned finance.
Featured Work
Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2024
The most comprehensive assessment of global climate finance flows, drawing on numerous data sources and updated annually since 2012. Our latest edition shows that while annual climate finance reached almost USD 1.5 trillion in 2022, it needs to increase at least fivefold by 2030 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.
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Ensuring the quality of our work
Data Science
Methodology
Convening and dissemination
Climate Finance by Sector
We use our unique data set and methodological expertise throughout our growing body of sector-specific and thematic work. Our sectoral and thematic areas of analysis include assessing the scale of climate finance, identifying the main actors, and revealing investment gaps. We also highlight opportunities to mobilize finance that address climate goals and create positive economic impacts. Our sectoral climate finance tracking work covers a wide range of topics, including comprehensive analyses of:
- Climate finance for agrifood systems globally
- Financial commitments flowing to energy access in high-impact countries
- Methane abatement finance
CPI has also published innovative methods to better measure finance for climate adaptation.
Energy Access 
Adaptation 
Agrifood 
Methane 
Green Infrastructure 
Land use Climate Finance by Geography
Understanding domestic flows of finance can help governments identify finance gaps, prioritize efforts to better align with climate goals, and unlock the private investment needed for green, resilient development.
Our tracking work supports these efforts by providing robust analyses of how much climate finance is flowing at regional, national, and subnational levels. We also work directly with governments to identify the enabling conditions that can help drive investment to support low-carbon, climate-resilient growth.
Impact and Highlights from CPI’s Climate Finance Tracking Program
Our 2022 Highlights and Impact Report outlines the impact and key milestones achieved by our climate finance tracking program in 2022 and beyond. It also highlights our contribution in advancing data-driven analysis, influencing climate finance policy, and amplifying knowledge.
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Publications
Publication
The Triple Gap in Finance for Agrifood Systems
Agrifood systems form the cornerstones of economies, societies, and ecosystems across the world, while also generating significant environmental costs. This report takes a systems-based approach to analyzing the investment needs of the agrifoods sector.
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IDFC Green Finance Mapping 2024
Since 2011, the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), a group of 26 national and regional development banks with over USD 4 trillion in combined assets and annual commitments exceeding USD 800 billion, has conducted an annual mapping of member institutions’ green finance contributions.
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Landscape of Climate Finance for Land Use in Brazil 2021–2023
Researchers from Climate Policy Initiative/Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro CPI/PUC-Rio quantify the financial flows directed toward agriculture and forests between 2021 and 2023 that are aligned with climate objectives.
Partners and Collaborators
Team
Please get in touch at adminlondon@cpiglobal.org if you would like to learn more or support our research.
Many climate finance tracking challenges remain. By providing ever more comprehensive and comparable data, CPI will continue to help decision-makers make optimal use of their resources.
