Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework

Unlocking climate finance at speed and scale is essential to achieving the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, many countries face persistent challenges—including capacity constraints, limited public funding, fragmented coordination, and a complex finance landscape. To support country-specific investment planning and finance mobilization efforts, the NDC Partnership and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) developed the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework. The Framework helps countries identify support priorities and access available technical and financial assistance through the GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme and the NDC Partnership’s Country Engagement Process.

Investment Planning

Climate Investment Planning involves creating a strategic program to identify and leverage diverse financing sources to achieve both climate and development goals. The planning process includes assessing and addressing governance and capacity gaps, identifying and prioritizing key investments, mapping financing sources, developing a roadmap to catalyze both public and private finance, and evaluating resource usage for ongoing improvements.

Find out more about Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3.

Finance Mobilization

Climate Finance Mobilization refers to the process of raising and channeling financial resources to support activities and investments that address climate change. Mobilization involves engaging with financiers to align project portfolios and pipelines with prioritized investments, structuring investments and projects, and strengthening enabling environments and de-risking mechanisms. Depending on the priority investments and the finance landscape, decision-makers can choose to tap into resources from public, private, or blended sources.

Find out more about Stage 4, Stage 5 and Stage 6.

Framework Objectives

Promote Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Use evidence, data, and science to identify and prioritize adaptation and mitigation investments with high climate and development impacts.

Promote Coordination and Alignment

Drive coordinated strategies and processes to engage a wide range of stakeholders and harness the full spectrum of climate finance sources, optimizing the use of limited public finance to mobilize private-sector investments at scale.

Strengthen Enabling Environments

Enhance policy and regulatory frameworks and institutional capacities to unlock public and private sector investments, reducing risks and increasing the attractiveness of climate-related investments.

Enable Transformational Investment Planning and Mobilization

Empower countries to identify, prioritize, and collaboratively design investments that can mobilize climate finance from private, public, national, and international sources.

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Rationale for the Framework

Over the past decade, global climate action has shifted from planning to financing and implementation, with countries enhancing their NDCs, NAPs, and LT-LEDS. However, the First Global Stocktake highlights the urgent need to scale up climate finance to close the implementation and ambition gaps. To address this, the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework, developed by the NDC Partnership and the GCF, offers a structured yet flexible approach to help countries and finance providers navigate climate investment complexities. The use of the Framework strengthens institutional readiness, fosters collaboration among governments, development partners, and financiers, and increases the effectiveness and impact of climate finance.

Key Features of the Framework

Effective climate action relies on robust coordination, strategic engagement, and policy alignment to drive impactful investments. By integrating data, science, and financial planning, stakeholders can prioritize adaptation and mitigation efforts that support sustainable development. This approach bridges policy and finance, unlocking public and private resources to accelerate transformative climate solutions at all levels.

Supplements

Climate investment planning and mobilization are complex, involving multiple governance layers, diverse stakeholders, and unique contextual challenges. To address this complexity, specialized supplements focusing on key thematic priorities have been developed.