This document draws on Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)'s experience developing several national landscapes of climate finance in various countries throughout the past ten years. While not a comprehensive instruction manual, CPI hopes that this will help guide government officials and practitioners looking to track climate finance using their Landscape approach.

Since 2011, CPI has produced The Global Landscape of Climate Finance series (the Landscape), which is the most comprehensive inventory of climate change investment available. It provides a visual and descriptive snapshot of how much and what kind of finance is flowing toward low carbon and climate resilient actions globally in order to identify gaps and opportunities to scale-up investment. When updated regularly, such analysis can also reveal trends in climate finance over time.