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Bridging climate-finance ambition and integrity practice.

The climate-finance community understands climate ambition. The integrity community understands risk, trust and accountability. But there is still too little shared infrastructure connecting these disciplines across the design, approval and delivery of climate finance.

CFIN exists to close that gap.

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Our Purpose

Building the integrity architecture behind credible climate finance.

Climate finance is scaling in speed, volume and complexity. But the integrity systems needed to protect finance, delivery and trust are not evolving at the same pace.

Too often, integrity is treated as a compliance function sitting beside climate finance, rather than part of the infrastructure that makes climate finance work.

CFIN exists to help close that gap by connecting climate-finance and integrity expertise, translating integrity knowledge into climate-finance context, and strengthening the systems behind credible climate action.

Our Frameworks

The Integrity Gap Model

Understanding the growing disconnect between scale and safeguards.

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More Frameworks Ahead

Additional frameworks addressing specific dimensions of climate finance integrity are currently in development.

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Insights

Latest thinking

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Flagship

The Architecture Behind the Ambition

Climate finance is expanding rapidly. The harder question is whether the institutions carrying that ambition are built to protect it.

Sep 2026
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Flagship

Why Climate Finance Integrity Is Not Just Anti-Corruption

Preventing bribery, fraud, collusion, and embezzlement is essential. But a climate finance system can be free of proven corruption and still produce decisions, processes, and results that do not merit confidence.

Aug 2026
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Flagship

Corruption Risk Is Real. And Climate Finance Is Not Immune.

Climate finance exists to solve an extraordinary problem. The resources deployed to address it, however, remain vulnerable to very ordinary forms of corruption.

Aug 2026
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Membership

Help shape the integrity architecture behind credible climate action.

Join a growing, cross-disciplinary community working to strengthen integrity, trust and impact in climate finance.

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