Resources

IMF page that explains what RST are and show current arrangements.

VOX EU column discussing how unused SDRs held by advanced economies could be mobilized to finance climate mitigation and adaptation in vulnerable countries, and examines institutional and governance challenges to scaling this approach.

Text about levies on high-emitting activities and solidarity levies.

Text about levies on fossil fuel emissions, explaining different possible levies.

The Global Solidarity Levies Taskforce (GSLT) was launched at COP28. Its goal is to build political will around feasible climate levy options, complementing other global tax initiatives. At COP30, the GSLT concluded its work by presenting implementable levy options and supporting voluntary, coalition-based and nationally led approaches.

Blueprint for a coordinated minimum effective taxation standard for ultra-high-net-worth individuals. It outlines the rationale, design principles, and implementation options for an internationally coordinated approach to taxing extreme wealth, aiming to reduce tax avoidance, improve equity, and strengthen domestic revenue mobilization across jurisdictions.

CPI's work on the topic for capital mobilization

This learning paper explores how capital can be more effectively mobilized to support the transition to deforestation-free agricultural supply chains.

With a focus on trust and transparency, the Decent Work Toolkit for Sustainable Procurement is publicly available to all and contains real-life examples of buyers and suppliers jointly addressing decent work concerns in global supply chains. It can help both buyers and suppliers start or strengthen their dialogue to identify and address gaps in decent working conditions.

Provides resources, funding, and guidance on making green supply chains more sustainable while addressing the social and economic impacts on communities and workers in transition.

Outlines the role of sustainable sourcing and production in green supply chains for batteries, a key element in clean energy transition, covering everything from raw material mining to end-of-life recycling.

This report provides a forward-looking overview of industrial supply chain dynamics and their likely evolution over the next two decades.

Supports practitioners in planning for equitable and sustainable transitions in regions and sectors facing structural change.

This policy brief presents the linkages between just transition and skills development, providing stakeholders with information and recommendations for implementation.

The first global report on the implications of the transition to low-carbon and resource-efficient economies for skills, gender and occupations.

This report contextualizes the Just Transition Taxonomy by examining coal’s role in the global energy system, international coal phaseout commitments, and the principles of a just transition, providing a framework to identify activities aligned with an equitable shift away from coal-based energy.

A review of Just Energy Transition Partnerships in South Africa, Indonesia, Vietnam and Senegal, and prospects for country sector platforms.

Text from the Institute for Human Rights and Business explaining what Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are, outlining their objectives, structure, and relevance for supporting energy transitions in developing and emerging economies.

Text from the European Commission that explains the role of Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) as a key instrument of international climate cooperation. It outlines the objectives of JETPs, their governance structure, and their role in supporting partner countries’ energy transitions, with emphasis on policy reform, investment mobilization, and alignment with national development and climate goals.

Text from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that analyzes Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) at a critical juncture, assessing their progress, limitations, and political economy challenges. It examines gaps between commitments and delivery, governance and financing constraints, and the implications for scaling JETPs and sustaining credibility in partner countries.

ODI policy brief that describes what country platforms are, how they function, and how they differ across contexts. It presents a typology of country platforms and discusses concrete examples.

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.

MDB statement on country platforms.

Article about the Country Platforms Hub.

Description of the Country Platform Hub, by the Brazilian Ministry of Finance.

Report from the MDBs from October 2025 on cooperation with CRAs to date and areas for future engagement.

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.

The Bridgetown Initiative aims to overcome some of the main shortcomings of mobilizing climate finance for EMDEs.

The Bridgestone Initiative operates through a series of proposals, most recently the "Bridgetown 3.0" agenda launched in late 2024, which seeks to implement specific actions and has set the end of 2025 as a deadline for key advancements.

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.

The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development present to the co-chairs of the FFD4 Preparatory Committee their final revised text of the Sevilla Commitment (Compromiso de Sevilla). It reflects the co-facilitators best efforts to arrive at consensus and reflects a balanced, ambitious, and action-oriented outcome document.

Exploration of a new approach to ensure commitments account for, and help overcome, domestic barriers to fossil fuel subsidy reform that comprise time-bound roadmaps, steps to close existing loopholes, and support for lower-income countries.

The Fossil Fuel Subsidy Tracker is a collaboration between the OECD and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to track global estimate s on fossil fuels.

This paper describes how the IMF and WB can build on existing collaboration in domestic resource mobilization (DRM), to foster synergies and complementarities in the support they provide.

ADB's Paper which emphasizes that a roadmap provides certainty on policy introduction, directly encouraging the financial sector to increase sustainable investments. A sustainable finance policy roadmap was seen as the most important policy to unlock sustainable investment as it is one of the strongest policies signals of the country's commitment to develop sustainable finance market.

The World Bank Group's guarantee platform consolidates its guarantee products and experts, enhancing efficiency, simplicity, and speed.

The report produces actionable recommendations for policymakers and decisionmakers that will scale up the use and efficiency of guarantees for the green transition.

An independent evaluation regarding the relevance, coherence, and effectiveness of the Bank Group’s use of guarantees globally over the past decade.

The blog explores how innovative guarantee and insurance instruments are making a difference for clean energy and energy efficiency projects in EMDEs, drawing on real-world examples and recent OECD research, and why they are still not used at scale.

A framework for transition finance for ASEAN.

To help facilitate and accelerate the financing flows, this document seeks to provide clear guidance and common expectations on the practices, actions and disclosures to be made available by issuers when raising funds for their climate transition strategy.

This discussion paper aims to establish credibility and integrity in transition finance by defining voluntary high-level Guidelines to support the market. These build on the TFMR and aim to support a wide range of users, including policymakers, industry, and the financial sector.

COP 28 Outcome Document

The Project Preparation Action Group, supports CCFLA’s members in identifying, coordinating and accelerating existing Preparation Facilities (PPFs) for low-carbon and climate-resilient urban infrastructure projects.

This glossary defines terms commonly used by Project Preparation Facilities or to describe project preparation activities.

The Green Climate Fund Project Preparation Facility (PPF) is a support mechanism that provides financial and technical assistance to help accredited entities prepare high‑quality climate project and programme proposals for GCF funding.

The Project Preparation and Implementation Support Trust Fund (PPISTF) is a single-donor trust fund established in 2022. It provides technical assistance (TA) grants for project preparation to both non-sovereign and sovereign operations.

Technical assistance programs and global advocacy for stronger, sustainable finance.

It is a directory that helps subnational governments and stakeholders identify project preparation facilities that can support them in developing green and resilient infrastructure, more efficient heating and cooling systems, building renewable energy, setting up sustainable transit, or climate-proofing resilient infrastructure.

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.

The SCALE project explores the launch of a new scalable climate finance platform to provide the full range of equity, credit, and technical assistance to private companies whose technology and solutions address the impacts of climate change globally. Building on the lessons learned from the first private investment fund for adaptation and climate resilience, Lightsmith will map climate resilience companies, engage investors and funders, and design systems for the new platform strategy.

UNFCCC's Adaptation Private Sector Initiative (PSI) under the The Nairobi work programme: UNFCCC knowledge-to-action hub on adaptation and resilience, The Private Sector Initiative (PSI) aims to catalyze the involvement of the private sector in the wider adaptation community.

CPI Analysis finds the need to develop a taxonomy for tracking private sector finance in adaptation and build a machine learning model and dataset to support the expansion of its tracking.

The disaster risk reduction (DRR) Working Group has the main objectives of increasing focus on DRR as a complement to protection gap solutions to increase resilience of vulnerable communities, giving more visibility to the role of insurance in disaster risk reduction.

Insurance enables economic activity by protecting assets and de-risking investments in renewables, low-carbon technologies and climate-resilient infrastructure. Through underwriting, pricing, claims management and broker engagement, insurers can influence clients’ decarbonization pathways and signal risks to high-emitting activities.

This paper examines the contribution of the insurance sector to climate adaptation. It outlines some of the challenges to assessing future climate risks, encouraging policyholder risk reduction and supporting resilient reinstatement.

The document explains Brazil’s Foreign Private Capital Mobilization and Currency Hedging Program, which aims to attract foreign investment by improving macroeconomic stability and predictability. It is designed to support Brazil’s ecological transformation.

The report analyses risks in the global financial system, with a focus on FX markets and cross-border capital flows. It explains how foreign-currency debt, capital flow volatility, and liquidity stresses can increase exchange rate risks, and outlines policy measures such as stronger FX market oversight and development of local-currency markets, to enhance resilience against currency shocks.

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

A national classification system for sustainable economic activities, guiding financial institutions and investors to channel capital toward environmentally and socially sustainable projects aligned with Indonesia’s development goals and net-zero transition.

IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 issues by ISSB, ushering in a new era of sustainability-related disclosures in capital markets worldwide.

This report establishes common principles for tracking nature-positive finance, improves comparability across MDBs, supports global biodiversity commitments, and guides consistent investment, reporting, and decision-making toward nature-positive outcomes.

This report provides a credible, harmonized framework for tracking climate mitigation finance, supports Paris Agreement goals, improves transparency and consistency in reporting, and guides investments toward low-carbon activities.

It consists of updated Climate Change (GRI 102) and Energy (GRI 103) Standards, reflecting global best practices, enhancing transparency, and guiding organizations in reporting climate impacts.

The report guides policymakers, regulators, central banks, and supervisors on aligning financial systems with climate and sustainable development goals.

A guide to central banks and financial supervisors in integrating climate-related and environmental risks into supervision. It provides non-binding recommendations, best practices, and tools to help ensure financial system resilience while allowing flexibility across jurisdictions and supervisory mandates.

A global framework that helps banks align their strategies with sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. It promotes responsible banking by guiding financial institutions to manage social and environmental impacts and contribute to a sustainable future.

Data on finance and investment on environmental goals, climate goals, biodiversity, water and greening SME's.

The report seeks to empower low- and middle-income countries to use the Resilience and Sustainability facility more strategically by improving coordination across ministries and with development partners, to build macroeconomic policy frameworks that tackle climate change and long-term sustainability challenges.

A UN Partnership Program, whose aim is to support members in working with stakeholders including investors, issuers, regulators, supervisors, policymakers, and international organizations to enhance sustainable finance.

The Carbon Market Regulations Tracker is developed to enhance the understanding and transparency of carbon market regulations, and support governments, project developers, investors, and other market participants in navigating the evolving regulatory landscape.

The World Bank's Carbon Pricing Dashboard provides details about direct carbon pricing instruments and carbon markets around the world.

This report focuses on the direct pricing of greenhouse gas emissions through carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and carbon crediting mechanisms.

High-integrity carbon markets can be a win-win for people and the planet, potentially generating millions, if not billions, for countries on the pathway to low carbon development. While there are challenges, the potential of carbon markets needs to be tapped and fully utilized.

The Carbon Market Regulations Tracker is developed to enhance the understanding and transparency of carbon market regulations, and support governments, project developers, investors, and other market participants in navigating the evolving regulatory landscape.

Vision of the World Bank's Climate Warehouse.

Well-designed, high integrity carbon markets can play a pivotal role in financing climate action in developing countries. However, several critical bottlenecks impede the growth of these markets. The 2024 State and Trends of International Carbon Markets report evaluates the progress made in addressing these bottlenecks, highlights the urgency of these issues, and proposes recommendations to ensure that carbon markets reach their full potential.