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:
This study assesses the level of integration of mitigation and adaptation (IMA) in urban climate change plans across 44 major Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) cities.
This report introduces the role that sustainable procurement can play to accelerate the transition to a circular economy and the shift towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production. It is addressed to both public procurers and policy makers as well as corporate buyers and business leaders.
The Ocean Finance Handbook is a guide to support an increase in finance flowing towards the sustainable blue economy. The Handbook provides a key resource to enhance understanding of finance for a healthy ocean and generate conversations between financial institutions and marine-based businesses, conservation professionals and ocean project managers.
The report synthesises the most relevant barriers and drivers for collaborative concentrated solar power (CSP) deployment as well as the major lessons learned on CSP development and renewable energy sources (RES) cooperation in Europe.