Part D. Resources
D-12. CPI Guide applied to Transport for Resilient Supply Chains
The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) released a new Guide (January 2026): Assessing Climate Risk, Framing Resilience, and Reporting Impact: A Guide for Climate Finance Practitioners.
The Guide is written for climate finance practitioners, focuses on climate finance vehicles and is structured around three core goals:
- Assess and manage your climate risk to align with international standards and funder expectations
- Define your adaptation investment thesis, making a clear case for how and why the finance vehicle strengthens climate resilience
- Design a fit-for-purpose impact measurement and reporting strategy that captures adaptation and resilience outcomes.
Using the Link-Links Framework, this resource is designed as a crosswalk between the CPI Guide and its application to transport and logistics links within supply chains. Its purpose is to:
- Explain what CPI Goals 1–3 and associated steps mean when applied to transport and logistics.
- Point readers to relevant Life-Links Framework steps (Part C) and supporting resources (Part D) for further practical guidance.
- Help strengthen concrete outputs as set out in the CPI Guide, in particular the:
- Risk assessment that more consistently includes transport and logistics systems and their stakeholders within climate investment pipelines.
- Risk management plan and adaptation action packages that explicitly include measures to strengthen transport and logistics links, with a clearer rationale for investors.
- Adaptation and resilience investment thesis that is stronger because it reflects benefits created at the level of transport and logistics that affect the resilience of broader supply chains and value chains.
- Impact measurement and reporting strategy that looks beyond individual stakeholders to capture supply chain and logistics resilience as a shared outcome, making follow-through by investors and supply chain actors more likely.