REPORTS & DATA

IFC’s Sustainable Rice Market Insights report explores the current state of global rice markets as well as the origin and evolution of the SRP to support the transformation of the rice sector towards sustainability. The report reviews the range of IFC's experience in the rice sector to date and explores financing opportunities in sustainable rice supply chains, including sustainability-linked loans.

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. With a collection of 30 examples from the private sector and 9 public-sector reforms or interventions, including public-private partnerships, the report shows that promising adaptation and resilience efforts are undertaken globally and have measurable results. These initiatives and good practices can be replicated to scale up action and to build resilience for all.

As the damage from extreme weather events becomes more apparent, the urgency increases for companies to understand, measure and manage the risks they face from climate change and the interlinked crisis of biodiversity loss. Data can help financial institutions make informed decisions about how to develop effective sustainability strategies to reduce their climate and environmental risks. This report provides a detailed analysis of how financial institutions can enhance their resilience to climate risks and support the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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.