1. OECD, Paris
28 October 2019
Towards international-level
tracking and assessments

2. $3.8tn/year
To achieve 1.5 degree
warming goals in the
energy system alone
according to IPCC

3. 3
Climate investment is steadily increasing
Numbers are currently under review, and there may be changes up until publication in
November

4. 4
• The most comprehensive global
assessment available on financial flows
supporting climate change mitigation
and adaptation
• Domestic and international investment
from both the public and private
sectors
• Grants, loans, project-level equity &
balance sheet financing
• Project level primary investment
• Excludes guarantees, subsidies, R&D,
secondary market transactions
What is the Global Landscape of Climate Finance?

5. Methodological improvements

6. 6
Current data gaps

7. 7
Methodological deep dives
• Contribute to debates on how investors can implement climate-
aligned finance
• Explore potential approaches to measure “brown flows”
• Approach in measuring the nature and speed of shifts in private capital
in response to climate change
• Comparing tracked climate finance to climate finance needs
for low carbon and climate resilient development (per country,
per sector)
• Top down methodology to assess the mitigation and adaption
impacts of current climate finance flows
CPI plans to advance tracking of international climate finance

8. Measuring flows inconsistent with the Paris
agreement

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Exploring potential approaches to measure “brown flows”
Definitions
• Review available definitions and sectors
• Activities inconsistent with climate objective
Data sources
• Scoping available public data and databases
• Public sources
• Private sources
Purpose and impact
• Tracking of brown flows
• Identify stranded asset investment
• Contribution to total finance tracking

10. Measuring shift in private capital

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Framework to measure the nature and speed of the shift

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A dashboard to capture the private capital response

14. Contact –
CPI: climatepolicyinitiative.org
The Lab: climatefinancelab.org
Global Landscape of Climate Finance:
climatefinancelandscape.org
Thank You
@climatepolicy
@climatepolicyinitiative
USICEF: usicef.org