All Publications
Green Inclusive Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling Environments, Challenges and Opportunities
This study highlights the critical role of financial service providers in mitigating climate risks and promoting green financial products that enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities.
8 Billion Reasons: Inclusive Finance as a Catalyst for Climate Action
This paper is a call to action for climate practitioners and financial services stakeholders from across public, private, and philanthropic sectors to work together to unlock the full potential of financial inclusion for scaling grassroots climate action.
Promoting Inclusive Green Finance in Agriculture
This publication seeks to contribute towards filling the current knowledge gap on inclusive green finance by presenting a series of concrete case studies that touch upon different aspects of green finance in agriculture, with a specific, overarching focus on the promotion of sustainable small-scale agricultural production.
Green Essential Practices Report - Highlights of Good Green Practices
This report features a selection of exemplary green inclusive finance practices, and offers insights into the successes, the challenges faced by financial service providers and the solutions they found to design and implement their green strategy.
Scaling Parametric Insurance in Pacific Small Island Developing States Through Meso- Level Solutions
This publication focuses on promoting meso-level insurance products designed for development banks, microfinance institutions, provident/pension funds, associations, and cooperatives through the UNCDF-led Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Programme.
Understanding Customers in Environments of Severe Climate-Related Weather Events
This demand side study in Nigeria and Bangladesh aims to provide firsthand information about how vulnerable people build and lose resilience, as well as a close view of how they gather and spend funds to cope with a climate crisis.
White Paper: Elevating the Voices of Affected People in Climate Adaptation
This paper combines insights from a review of relevant literature with insights from focus group discussions and individual interviews of those most impacted by climate shocks and stresses.
Climate-Related Development Finance to Agrifood Systems
This publication addresses the persistent knowledge gap related to climate finance to agrifood systems, providing data and information to support countries making informed decisions towards agrifood systems transformation.
Call to Action: Responsible Digital Payments to Accelerate Climate Action
This publication calls for urgent measures to address climate vulnerability by expanding digital payments and digital public infrastructure and putting women, youth, indigenous peoples, and communities in fragile and climate-vulnerable areas at the center of adaptation planning.
Feasibility Study on Climate Risk Insurance in Malawi
This study examines the growing impact of climate induced disaster on the agriculture sector in Malawi and explores financial gaps that could feasibly be filled through climate risk insurance solutions.