The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is an independent non-profit research group and international climate policy organization based in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
with other offices worldwide.
CPI is supported primarily by philanthropic organizations and government development finance.
With over 100 analysts and advisors
the climate
think tank
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works to improve energy and land use policies around the world, with a particular focus on finance.
It is considered a leader expert group in tracking global climate finance.
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.
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
Climate change mitigation is action to limit climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or removing those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global average temperature is mostly caused by emissions from fossil fuels bu ...
and
adaptation.
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.
The Climate Policy Initiative should not to be confused with Initiative on Climate Change policy and Governance (ICCG), formerly (up to 2017) International Center for Climate Governance.
History
Founded in 2009 by
Thomas Heller
Thomas C. Heller (born February 27, 1944) is a climate policy lawyer and academic. He currently serves as the chairman of the board for Climate Policy Initiative, an organization he founded in 2009 that works to improve energy and land use polic ...
,
CPI is headquartered in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
(United States).
It also has offices in
Rio de Janeiro
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(Brazil),
New Delhi
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(India),
Jakarta (Indonesia),
and
London
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(United Kingdom).
As of 2020, the Global Managing Director of the Climate Policy Institute is
Barbara Buchner.
Current fields of research
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Renewable energy &
energy efficiency
Energy efficiency may refer to:
* Energy efficiency (physics), the ratio between the useful output and input of an energy conversion process
** Electrical efficiency, useful power output per electrical power consumed
** Mechanical efficiency, a ra ...
* Policy & institutions
*
Carbon finance
Carbon finance is a branch of environmental finance that covers financial tools such as carbon emission trading to reduce the impact of greenhouse gases (GHG) on the environment by giving carbon emissions a price.
Financial risks and opportunitie ...
* Climate & development (for the scientific journal see ''
Climate and Development'')
*
Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. ...
&
land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods. Land use by humans has a long his ...
Publications
CPI has published about 200 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.
See also
*
Climate Finance
Climate finance is "finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases and aims at reducing vulnerability of, and maintaining and increasing the resilience of, human and ecological systems to negative climate change ...
*
Global warming
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in a broader sense also includes ...
External links
Climate Policy Initiativeofficial website
References
Environmental research institutes
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Climate change organizations based in the United States
Economic research institutes
Nonpartisan organizations in the United States
Political and economic think tanks in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in San Francisco
Natural resource management
Organizations established in 2009