This resource describes CIF's main achievements up to 2020, along with its strategies and priorities. This is supported by key examples of recent projects around the globe, such as CIF support for farmers and ranchers in the Brazilian Cerrado piloting low-carbon agricultural practices. Key roles played by CIF in climate finance, as a learning lab, and as a pioneer in climate change action, are highlighted. A list of CIF program snapshots and CIF-GDI case studies are included.
The report concludes with CIF's focus points for 2021:
Unlocking ever-greater ambition and investment in emerging priorities, including energy storage and renewable energy integration systems, natural capital, low-carbon and climate resilient industries, and climate- smart cities
Driving innovation under the new CIF programs, including working with MDBs to mainstream innovative financing as well as creating venture- focused investment windows to support high- risk but high-impact technologies, models, and approaches
Exploring potentially catalytic ways to engage with the private sector at scale, including mechanisms for private sector capital, such as institutional investors, to contribute to CIF at the fund level while generating significant private sector financing opportunities at the project level
Focusing strategic engagement and outreach on deepening partnerships and leveraging opportunities for complementarity
Enhancing understanding of the latest approaches and tools in climate finance through thought leadership and cutting-edge research on emerging global priorities, such as how to accelerate climate action while ensuring that the transition to a low-carbon and resilient future is just and leaves no one behind