REPORTS & DATA

As a supplement to IFC’s Biodiversity Finance Reference Guide, this document is designed to provide expanded guidance on impact reporting for eligible biodiversity finance activities. Impact reporting is one of the four core components required for alignment with the Green Bond and Loan Principles and seeks to ensure transparency and accountability. This supplement aims to facilitate effective impact reporting by offering indicative metrics for each eligible biodiversity finance activity identified in the guide.

The report quantifies sustainable cooling investment needs and financing gaps, highlighting many opportunities for private investors in a market that could grow to more than half a trillion dollars per year by 2050. Accelerating the adoption of passive cooling, energy efficiency and refrigerant phase down, would reduce electricity consumption, spending on equipment, and future power sector investments by more than $8 trillion in developing countries over the next 25 years.

This report provides a comprehensive summary of international target-setting practices, examining their boundaries and pathways under the 1.5°C climate goal by 2050. While global practices serve to guide Chinese iron and steel companies to set climate-aligned targets, an industry-level target broken down from China’s national goals of carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 will help direct companies’ level of ambition and pace of transition.

Climate transition plans are a vital tool to demonstrate to investors, suppliers, customers and other key stakeholders that an organization is committed to achieving a 1.5-degree pathway transition, and that its business model will remain relevant (ie profitable) in a net-zero carbon economy. CDP's latest report, The State of Play: 2023 Climate Transition Plan Disclosure, shines a spotlight on how far along organizations are on their journey to developing credible climate transition plans.

This report reviews evidence-based prioritization and costing approaches and illustrates their application in a series of case studies. These approaches can support policy makers in identifying bankable and effective adaptation investments, raising and allocating adequate financing, and thus ultimately facilitating more effective climate change adaptation across Europe.

This report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including international, national, and subnational initiatives. It also investigates trends surrounding the development and implementation of carbon pricing instruments and some of the drivers seen over the past year. Specifically, this report covers carbon taxes, emissions trading systems (ETSs), and crediting mechanisms. Key topics covered in the 2024 report include uptake of ETSs and carbon taxes in low- and middle- income economies, sectoral coverage of ETSs and carbon taxes, and the use of crediting mechanisms as part of the policy mix.

The global agrifood system has been largely overlooked in the fight against climate change. Yet, greenhouse gas emissions from the agrifood system are so big that they alone could cause the world to miss the goal of keeping global average temperatures from rising above 1.5 centigrade compared to preindustrial levels. The report offers the first comprehensive global strategic framework to mitigate the agrifood system’s contributions to climate change, detailing affordable and readily available measures that can cut nearly a third of the world’s planet heating emissions while ensuring global food security.

Digital technologies also have the potential to shape climate change action. Green digital transformation can help countries adapt effectively to the impacts of climate change and create greener growth pathways. This report illuminates the channels through which digital technologies intersect with climate change, and it proposes a path to low-emissions applications of digital technologies to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The market of digital solutions to assess climate risk impact on agricultural portfolios of financial services providers is growing in size and coverage rapidly. This report is the result of a mapping exercise to ascertain the status quo of tools and providers on both a global and a targeted market level.

IFC’s annual Green and Social Bond Impact Report publishes a list of projects in emerging markets that have been funded through the proceeds of our green and social bonds. IFC's green bonds help finance sustainable, climate smart projects with positive environmental impact.