| CCFLA works to strengthen the governance, policy and institutional conditions that shape urban climate finance. By improving the enabling environment across levels of government, we help cities access and deploy the funding they need for low-carbon and climate-resilient urban development. |
Public finance and policy frameworks play a critical role in determining whether cities can attract and deploy climate finance. However, many cities remain constrained by unclear mandates, weak coordination across levels of government, and limited institutional capacity.
At the same time, public finance represents a significant share of urban climate investment, much of its potential to catalyze private capital remains untapped. This workstream focuses on strengthening the enabling environment needed to unlock investment at scale.
• Strengthen national government engagement in urban climate finance.
• Improve enabling conditions that support climate investment in cities.
• Advocate for reforms to country platforms and public financial architecture that are more conducive to urban climate investment.
• Support implementation of the CHAMP initiative through enhanced capabilities for NDC investment.
Developing research, frameworks, and analytical tools to integrate urban and subnational priorities into country platforms; assess and improve enabling conditions for urban climate finance; and strengthen multi-level governance initiatives, such as CHAMP.
Organizing multi-stakeholder dialogues, facilitates peer-learning exchanges, and supports the application of CCFLA’s Enabling Framework Conditions Assessment Tools to align public finance actors, cities, and national governments around shared priorities.
Coordinating with the CHAMP Finance Working Group to support the development of new tools and approaches for multilevel climate action and investment.
Engaging public finance institutions, promotes the integration of urban priorities into national and global climate strategies, and strengthens multi-level governance frameworks that determine how and where climate finance flows.
This policy brief presents a framework for urban-inclusive country platforms, aiming to support national governments in systematically integrating urban and subnational needs into the design, governance, financing, and implementation of country platforms.
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Cities are not receiving the finance they need to adapt to the effects of climate change. Multilateral development banks, by leveraging their balance sheets and technical expertise, can be a cornerstone in attracting the financing needed for cities in low- and middle-income countries to realize their climate action plans.
read moreWhether cities can attract climate investment depends on their Enabling Framework Conditions (EFC): the policies, institutions, and systems that shape their ability to act and investors’ confidence to commit. The EFC Assessment Tools help governments assess where they stand and drive the reforms that unlock investment.
This series presents tools to enhance urban governments’ access to climate finance by assessing national enabling framework conditions. It also includes findings from our pilot applications in India and Indonesia, where the CCFLA/UrbanAct National Assessment Tool was used to evaluate countries’ national-level EFCs and their effectiveness in mobilizing subnational climate finance.
read moreWhether cities can attract climate investment depends on their Enabling Framework Conditions (EFC): the policies, institutions, and systems that shape their ability to act and investors’ confidence to commit. The EFC Assessment Tools help governments assess where they stand and drive the reforms that unlock investment.
Priscilla Negreiros, Priscilla.Negreiros@cpiglobal.org
Jessie Press-Williams, Jessie.Press-Williams@cpiglobal.org
Hamza Abdullah, Hamza.Abdullah@cpiglobal.org