Climate Policy Initiative

Not to be confused with International Center for Climate Governance or Initiative on Climate Change policy and Governance.

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is an independent non-profit research group and international climate policy organization based in San Francisco, California with other offices worldwide.^[3][4] CPI is supported primarily by philanthropic organizations and government development finance.^[5][6][3]

Climate Policy Initiative

Climate Policy Initiative
Abbreviation	CPI
Formation	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Founder	Thomas Heller
Type	Nonprofit research group and international climate policy organization
Location	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Global Managing Director	Barbara Buchner[1][2]
Website	www.climatepolicyinitiative.org

External videos
Climate Policy Initiative Youtube channel
“A Conversation with Climate Policy Initiative”, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, April 21, 2020.

With over 150 analysts and advisors^[5] the climate think tank works to improve energy and land use policies around the world, with a particular focus on finance.^[7][8] It is considered a leading expert group in tracking global climate finance.^[2][9][10] Beginning with the Landscape of Climate Finance (2011), CPI has published a series of annual reports which examine both public and private financial flows worldwide. CPI also publishes in-depth case studies on the public sector's mobilization of private investment.^[11] As of 2021, CPI reported that flows of climate-related finance in and between countries account for only about 0.7% of the world’s GDP, far below the amount that is projected to be needed for climate mitigation and adaptation.^[12] The San Giorgio Group (SGG), a working group established by CPI and others in 2011, focuses on ways in which financing can support green low-emissions investment.^[13][11]

History

Founded in 2009 by Thomas Heller,^[3] CPI is headquartered in San Francisco (United States).^[4] It also has offices in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),^[14] New Delhi (India),^[15] Jakarta (Indonesia),^[16][17] London (United Kingdom), ^[18] Washington DC (United States), ^[19] and Cape Town (South Africa). ^[20] As of 2020, the Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative is Barbara Buchner.^[1][2]

Current fields of research

• Renewable energy & energy efficiency
• Policy & institutions
• Carbon finance
• Climate & development (for the scientific journal see Climate and Development)
• Forestry & land use

Publications

CPI has published more than 500 studies on the previously listed fields of research, mainly in English, with some in Portuguese and Bahasa Indonesia (Malay). The studies are freely downloadable in its publications web page.^[21]

See also

• Climate Finance
• Global warming

External links

• Climate Policy Initiative official website