Adaptation and Resilience
There is an urgent need to spur greater investment into climate adaptation and resilience. However, current investments in adaptation constitute only a fraction of what is needed to avoid costly and catastrophic future impacts.
To help investors and policymakers better understand needs and opportunities, and close the adaptation investment gap, CPI tracks the current state of global finance for climate adaptation, guides recommendations on how best to fill data gaps in adaptation tracking, and conducts analysis and proposes solutions aimed to mobilize private finance for adaptation and resilience.
Featured work
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Tracking and Mobilizing Private Sector Climate Adaptation Finance
The lack of data on private adaptation finance creates significant uncertainty regarding progress on addressing climate vulnerabilities and leaves decision makers without critical information on where they should target additional investments. CPI has developed a methodological and data approach to improve tracking of private sector adaptation finance. These efforts have significantly increased the amount of private adaptation finance tracked.
Data Visualization
Financial Innovation for Climate Adaptation in Africa
An interactive tool to identify best approaches to adaptation projects.
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An Analysis of Urban Climate Adaptation Finance
While many cities have begun enacting policies and programs to build resilience towards climate hazards, there are numerous barriers to financing urban adaptation activities.
Latest work
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Building Financial Instruments for Climate Adaptation
Drawing on lessons learned from past instruments, the Lab has identified five key steps for structuring adaptation-focused financial instruments that deliver results.
Blog
Lab Alumni share insights on scaling climate finance
Learn how innovative climate finance solutions are scaling impact. This blog post features insights innovators on leveraging guarantees, standardizing approaches, and investing in nature-based solutions to address climate change.
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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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Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2024
The most comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment.
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Growth Next-Generation Agriculture (GAN)
Growth Next-Generation Agriculture (GAN) is a climate resilience debt fund accelerating Brazil’s transition to regenerative agriculture. It works through financing the purchase of biological inputs by farmers from local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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InvestHer Climate Resilience Bond
The InvestHER Climate Resilience Bond promotes CSA practices and gender mainstreaming by improving access to credit for women-led or owned agri-SMEs and providing technical assistance to enhance their impact on women farmers.
