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Transformative capital: The role of blended finance in shaping the trajectories of gender- and climate focused impact funds in Sub-Saharan Africa

From Growing Interest to Action: What Is Shaping Corporate Uptake of Biodiversity Credits?

This blog unpacks corporate perspectives on biodiversity credits and what barriers and drivers are currently shaping this emerging market.

Investing in Gender and Nature: Opportunities for DFIs and MDBs

This action brief invites DFIs, MDBs, and impact investors to identify entry points to embed a dual nature-gender lens into their investment processes.

Financing Nature’s Adaptive Capacity

This report, developed with support from iCS, highlights how innovative finance can unlock private investment for nature-based solutions that enhance climate resilience, drawing insights from five global case studies.

Scaling Productive Restoration in Brazil: Financial Innovation and Investment Pathways

Ahead of COP30, a CPI roundtable supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands explored how blended finance can drive restoration of degraded pastures in Brazil.

Closing Brazil’s Climate Finance Gap: The Role of Blended Finance and Financial Innovation

As Brazil prepares to host UNFCCC COP30 in November, CPI hosted a workshop, supported by iCS, that brought together representatives from key financial institutions to understand how they can collaborate to accelerate climate finance investments in Brazil.

Domestic Capital Mobilization for Climate Finance in Southeast Asia

Improving the Enabling Environment for Local Capital Towards Climate Action in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam

Blending Finance for Latin America's Agrifood Systems

This blog examines how agriculture, forestry, and land use generate over half of emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean, yet the region receives only 6% of global climate finance for agrifood systems. With USD 160 billion a year needed, blended finance can help close the gap if it addresses risk, builds local capacity, and reflects regional realities.

Making Climate Finance Gender-Responsive: From Intention to Implementation

In this blog, Aditi Kothari, Gender Analyst at Climate Policy Initiative, examines how climate finance can move from good intentions to meaningful gender integration. Drawing on lessons from the CC Facility, the blog outlines a practical framework for supporting financial vehicles to embed gender across their operations, and shows why doing so leads to more effective, inclusive climate solutions.

Playbook for Integrating Gender into Climate Finance Vehicles

This playbook provides practical steps to seamlessly integrate gender into climate finance, driving more equitable and impactful outcomes.

Blended Climate Finance for Sustainable Agrifood Systems: Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC)

Latin America’s agrifood systems are central to the region’s climate and economic future—yet they receive just 8% of climate finance. Despite driving over half of emissions and supporting millions of livelihoods, funding remains scarce. Blended finance offers a powerful tool to bridge this gap and scale resilient, sustainable agriculture.

Blended Finance in Agrifood Systems: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean

This three-part webinar series explores how blended finance can unlock investment for sustainable agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Breaking Down Silos: Integrating Gender and Climate Goals in Blended Finance Transactions

This blog highlights how blended climate finance can better integrate gender considerations by using tools like gender credits and technical assistance.

Blended Finance and the Gender-Energy Nexus: A Stocktaking Report

This report aims to take stock of current practices in the gender-responsive climate blended finance market, with a focus on energy.