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CPI Blog: Beyond Adaptation: Coming to Terms with Loss & Damage

Commitments and ambition, Loss & Damage

This blog published in May 2023 by Climate Policy Initiative explores the interpretations of, and instruments for dealing with, Loss & Damage.

V20 Finance Ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)

Commitments and ambition, Loss & Damage

The Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Ministers of Finance of the Climate Vulnerable Forum is a dedicated cooperation initiative of economies systemically vulnerable to climate change. The V20 works through dialogue and action to tackle global climate change.

ICMA Guidance Note and Term Sheet on Climate Resilient Debt Clauses

Fiscal Space, Climate-Resilient Debt Clauses, and Pre-Emptive Reprofiling

International Capital Market Association

Restructuring Sovereign Domestic Debt and the International Financial Architecture

Fiscal Space, Climate-Resilient Debt Clauses, and Pre-Emptive Reprofiling

Clifford Chance

A bridge to climate action

Fiscal Space, Climate-Resilient Debt Clauses, and Pre-Emptive Reprofiling

Finance for Development Lab

Columbia SIPA-Pure Play Sovereign Green Bond Report: Innovative Finance Proof of Concept

Fiscal Space, Sovereign Debt Architecture

Columbia School of International Public Affairs

The Climate Bonds Sector Criteria

Fiscal Space, Sovereign Debt Architecture

Climate Bonds Initiative

Debt for Climate Swaps Blueprint

Fiscal Space, Debt-for-Climate Swaps

Climate Policy Initiative

Debt-for-Nature Swaps

Fiscal Space, Debt-for-Climate Swaps

World Wildlife Foundation

Perspectives: The Debt-for-Nature Lifeline

Fiscal Space, Debt-for-Climate Swaps

The Nature Conservancy

IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust

Fiscal Space, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) Utilization

The IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) helps low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth, contributing to their longer-term balance of payments stability. It complements the IMF’s existing lending toolkit by providing longer-term, affordable financing to address longer-term challenges, including climate change and pandemic preparedness.

Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust

Fiscal Space, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) Utilization

The PRGT is the IMF's main vehicle for providing concessional financing (currently at zero interest rates) to low-income countries.

The Challenge of Reallocating SDRs: A Primer

Fiscal Space, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) Utilization

Center for Global Development

Coal-to-Clean Credit Initiative

Carbon Markets, International Carbon Markets

The Coal to Clean Credit Initiative (CCCI) is a consortium of global experts, led by The Rockefeller Foundation and supported by the Climate Policy Initiative and South Pole.

Energy Transition Accelerator

Carbon Markets, International Carbon Markets

The Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) strives to curb global warming by catalyzing private investment in holistic energy transition strategies via innovative jurisdictional-scale carbon credits. This approach directly compensates developing countries for verified emissions reductions.

Partnership for Market Implementation

Carbon Markets, Domestic Carbon Markets

World Bank program to bolster the development of domestic carbon markets.

CSIS Voluntary Carbon Market report

Carbon Markets, Domestic Carbon Markets

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce

Concessional Finance , Global Levies on High-Emitting Activities

The Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce (GSLT) was launched at COP28 and is co-chaired by Barbados, France, and Kenya. The goal is to bring member countries together to identify and build political will around feasible options for climate levies, complementing other global tax initiatives such as the OECD-led two-pillar corporate tax reform effort and the call for a UN tax convention. The GSLT aims to conclude its work at COP30 with an announcement on options for implementing international climate levies.

OECD Two-Pillar Solution

Concessional Finance , Global Levies on High-Emitting Activities

Domestic tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) relates to tax planning strategies that multinational enterprises use to exploit loopholes in tax rules to artificially shift profits to low or no-tax locations as a way to avoid paying tax. The OECD/G20 BEPS Project equips governments with rules and instruments to address tax avoidance, ensuring that profits are taxed where economic activities generating them take place and where value is created.

UNGA resolution on international tax cooperation (Dec. 2023)

Concessional Finance , Global Levies on High-Emitting Activities

Resolution on Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations - A/RES/78/230

An Innovative IFI Operating Model for the 21st Century

MDB Reform, Originate-to-Distribute Models

CPI's work on the topic for capital mobilization

Levering up the World Bank: securitisation plan to turbocharge MDB lending

MDB Reform, Originate-to-Distribute Models

CSO calls for the idea to be further explored

African Development Bank Guarantees

MDB Reform, Explore Scaling Proven Risk-Sharing Instruments

Types of Guarantees

MIGA

MDB Reform, Explore Scaling Proven Risk-Sharing Instruments

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

New GEMs Data Criticized for Lacking Granularity; But One Generality Praised

MDB Reform, Standardization, Data-Sharing, and Transparency

GEMS database criticisms

Inside three ways to improve direct access to green climate fund

MDB Reform, Standardization, Data-Sharing, and Transparency

GCF accreditation

Bridgetown Initiative: a transformation of development finance system for improved climate adaptation and resilience in emerging economies?

Domestic Mobilization, Domestic Financial Market Development

The Bridgetown Initiative

Sustainable Banking Network

Domestic Mobilization, Domestic Financial Market Development

The Sustainable Banking Network (SBN) is an informal and exclusive group of banking regulators and associations that are interested in sustainable banking policies, guidelines and practices. Its main objective is to facilitate the collective learning of its members and to support them in policy development to create drivers for sustainable finance practices.

Governance GCF

Domestic Mobilization, Domestic Financial Market Development

The Green Climate Fund

NGFS

Domestic Mobilization, Domestic Financial Market Development

The Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System

The Opportunity for transition Finance

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Climate Bonds Initiative Principals for Transition

ASEAN Transition Finance Guideline

Private Finance, Transition Finance

ASEAN Transition Finance Guideline

Scaling Transition Finance and Real-economy Decarbonization

Private Finance, Transition Finance

GFANZ Scaling Transition Finance and Real-economy Decarbonization, Supplement to the 2022 Net-zero Transition Plans report

EU Taxonomy regulation

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (Text with EEA relevance)

Taxonomy delegated regulation for Technical Screening Criteria

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives (Text with EEA relevance)

Basic Guidelines on Climate Transition Finance

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Japan's basic guidelines on climate transition finance

Technology Roadmaps (Iron & Steel)

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Technology Roadmap for "Transition Finance" in Iron and Steel Sector

Indonesia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance | 2023 Edition

Climate Transition Finance Handbook

Private Finance, Transition Finance

Guidance for Issuers June 2023

Project Preparation

Private Finance, Project Preparation and Business Development Facilities

  • At COP28 E3G, IDFC and Growald Climate Fund hosted a roundtable to discuss the challenges faced by PBD in financing a just energy and economic transition, with the intention to create a 1-year roadmap to organize the discussion on the topic for 2024.
  • GCF programing priority for 2024 includes a Readiness and Preparatory Support pillar, with an enhanced focus on climate programming and direct access through improved access to readiness and preparatory
    support, and removing barriers faced by developing countries.

Initiatives to shift insurance models

Private Finance, Shifting Insurance Models

- Global Shield which aims provide and facilitate more and better pre-arranged protection against climate and disaster related risks for vulnerable people and countries.
- Africa Climate Risk Insurance Facility for Adaptation (ACRIFA), J23a financing Facility to catalyze the development and uptake of Climate Insurance solutions across Climate-sensitive agri-food value chains
- Insurance Development Forum Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force (https://www.insdevforum.org/working-groups/disaster-risk-reduction-task-force/)

Brazil hedging instrument

Private Finance, Mitigating Currency Risk

New Guarantee Platform Delivers Efficiency, Simplicity to Boost Impact

Private Finance, Mitigating Currency Risk

MDB guarantee platform

CPI's Indonesia taxonomy

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

The Next Phase of Indonesia Green Taxonomy: Transition Finance to Support Decarbonization

EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

What the EU is doing to create an EU-wide classification system for sustainable activities.

The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2023

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

CPI- GreenCape UK PACT South Africa on interoperability of South African taxonomy

ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance - Version 3

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

Indonesia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

ISSB issues inaugural global sustainability disclosure standards

Private Finance, Taxonomies, Standardization, and Disclosure

WWF SUSREG Tracker

Private Finance, Monetary Policy, Financial Regulation, and Supervision

FSB Roadmap

Private Finance, Monetary Policy, Financial Regulation, and Supervision

Network for Greening the Financial System

Private Finance, Monetary Policy, Financial Regulation, and Supervision

What's wrong with fossil fuel subsidies?

Concessional Finance , Subsidy Reform

The Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFSR) Initiative led by New Zealand.

Blog: Ways to de-risk Climate Finance

Concessional Finance , De-Risking Private Investment-Guarantees

This blog by Climate Policy Initiative highlights the need to lay out a comprehensive plan for de-risking climate finance with a domain-centric approach.

The European Fund for Strategic Investments

Concessional Finance , De-Risking Private Investment-Guarantees

The EFSI aims to overcome current market failures by addressing market gaps and mobilising private investment. It supports investments in areas such as infrastructure, education, research and innovation, as well as risk finance for small businesses.

Working Paper: Guidelines For Financing a Credible Coal Transition A Framework for Assessing the Climate and Social Outcomes of Coal Transition Mechanisms

Country Platforms, Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JET-Ps)

This working paper provides a framework for assessing the climate and social credibility of financial transactions that aim to accelerate a managed phaseout of coal-fired power plants globally.

Scaling the JETP Model – Prospects and Pathways for Action

Country Platforms, Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JET-Ps)

The Rockefeller Foundation partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund, to facilitate a series of convenings that examined Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP) and how to scale these models to benefit the world's most vulnerable communities.

Closer to 1.5°C: Driving Ambitions to Deliver on the Paris Agreement

Country Platforms, New NDCs and Quantified Goals

Lessons and Recommendations from GGGI’s Provision of Support to Member and Partner Countries in 2020-2021 for NDC Enhancement.

Submissions from Parties and non-Party stakeholders

Country Platforms, New NDCs and Quantified Goals

CMA 5 invited Parties to submit views on issues to be addressed as part of the 2024 workplan via the submission portal.

Strengthening Climate Finance Delivery: The Path from Brazil’s G20 Presidency to COP30

Country Platforms, Country-Sector Platforms

This publication is a result of the high-level roundtable organized by the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS), Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), and CONCITO.

Bangladesh and its Partners are Launching the Bangladesh Climate and Development Platform to Leverage Adaptation and Mitigation Investments

Country Platforms, Country-Sector Platforms

IMF press release no. 23/420

World Bank Joins Multilateral Development Banks to Declare a Shared Commitment to Sustainable Procurement

Just Transition, Green Supply Chains

MDBs declare shared commitment to sustainable procurement, with a particular focus on decarbonizing supply chains. A working group was created to work on: 1) awareness building, outreach, and partnership, 2) building a common approach and identifying opportunities for harmonization, 3) training and development within the MDB community and for partner countries, 4) monitoring and communicating impact.

What is IDA 2021?

MDB Reform, IDA21 Replenishment

Africa Heads of State Summit FAQs.

As IDA aligns its operations with the Corporate Scorecard, what should shareholders prioritize during the IDA21 replenishment?

MDB Reform, IDA21 Replenishment

For the first time, IDA’s 21st replenishment policy package will align with the Corporate Scorecard. In the midst of these changes, IDA must demonstrate how it will maintain its additive value and show ambition on its environmental, social, and accountability standards. Bank information Centre.

Strengthening Multilateral Development Banks: The Triple Agenda A Roadmap for Better, Bolder And Bigger MDBs

MDB Reform, IDA21 Replenishment

This is the second volume of the report of an Independent Expert Group (IEG) that was commissioned by the Indian G20 Presidency.

Scaling Up Currency Risk Hedging for Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries

MDB Reform, IDA21 Replenishment

The purpose of this document is to outline a multitier effort to improve the management of currency risk in cross-border debt finance to LICs/LMICs. This noteby TCX presents a package of mutually supporting policies and measures to catalyse and incentivize the provision of local currency-denominated loans or hard currency loans indexed to local currency.

Readout from the Second Credit Rating Agency Roundtable

MDB Reform, Credit Rating Agency Cooperation

On the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Chief Financial and Risk Officers from all major multilateral development banks and other development financial institutions (jointly referred to as MDBs) convened with Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) in Marrakech. World Bank News.

How callable capital can be used to grow MDB lending capacity

MDB Reform, MDB Risk Appetite

The callable capital of the World Bank and other multilateral development banks is the ultimate unknown quantity — but it shouldn’t be. An article by Devex.

How likely are multilateral development banks to need callable capital? Implications for risk frameworks and lending capacity

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Paper by MDB reform accelerator.

International coalition to phase out fossil fuel subsidies

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International coalition announced at COP28 and lead by Netherlands.

The Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFSR) Initiative

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Fossil fuel subsidy reform initiative led by New Zealand.

ICVCM Core Carbon Principles - A rulebook for high integirity

Carbon Markets, International Carbon Markets

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market

VCMI Claims Code of Practice - Building integrity in voluntary carbon markets

Carbon Markets, International Carbon Markets

Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative

The CRAFT Project

Private Finance, Mobilizing Private Adaptation Investment

The Lightsmith Group, with funding from Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is leading the Climate Resilience and Adaptation Finance and Technology-transfer facility (CRAFT) project. The funding will support development and launch of the first private sector investment strategy for climate adaptation and resilience solutions. Conservation International is the GEF Implementing Agency for this project.

Project GAIA

Private Finance, Mobilizing Private Adaptation Investment

A multi-stakeholder climate and blended climate finance platform, supported by public and private sector organizations that offer long-term loans for climate adaptation and mitigation investments in 19 of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, making the funding accessible through sources previously unattainable to participating countries.

InsuResilience Investment Fund

Private Finance, Mobilizing Private Adaptation Investment

InsuResilience Investment Fund (IFF), managed by BlueOrchard, combines resources from the private sector, in this case, impact funds, with technical assistance and concessionary first-loss guarantees from public institutions like the KfW Development Bank.