Learn how we are working to transform how we use and produce energy.
Enabling the global financing sector to accelerate the clean energy transition
Even as global annual investment in clean energy has surpassed fossil fuel related funding, capital providers face systemic obstacles to deliver funding to key regions, sectors, and technologies in need of climate-friendly investment. To de-risk these opportunities, RMI delivers practical tools, elevates leading practices, and builds institutional capacity.
financial institutions representing over $44 trillion in assets have leveraged RMI-developed tools and thought leadership
global capital flowed to clean energy, efficiency, and electrification in 2025
clean industrial projects supported and advised by RMI
We help financial institutions move from high-level targets to asset-level clarity about their portfolio’s carbon intensity. Through transition intelligence tools, peer collaboration, and applied research, we enable banks and investors to drill down from portfolio ambition to corporate action on reducing emissions.
Through RMI’s Deal Lab, we convene commercial lenders, investors, developers, insurers, offtakers, and policymakers to simulate and structure real-world financial transactions. By focusing on one solution at a time, we reduce friction and unlock capital flows to scale decarbonization.
RMI improves resilience investments that reduce physical climate risk, support decarbonization, and unlock action across insurers, banks, policymakers, and capital providers.
RMI works with green banks, community lenders, financial intermediaries, commercial banks, and investors to close the persistent gaps that keep viable clean energy projects from attracting capital at scale.
Understand how sectors evolve in a net-zero economy. RMI’s Transition Pathways Repository connects financial institutions and corporations with credible transition pathways, helping translate scenario data into actionable intelligence for strategy, risk management, and investment decisions.
The latest articles and reports from our team
The energy transition will ultimately be shaped by where capital flows. What excites me about this work is helping financial institutions connect their climate commitments to the real-world investments that actually transform energy systems.
Clean energy deployment ultimately comes down to deals. We help structure projects so they meet investor requirements and can move efficiently through the financial system.
What I enjoy most about working with banks is translating climate goals into practical financing solutions. When financial institutions and their clients collaborate on real transactions, that’s when the transition starts to move at scale.
Independent research. Real-world solutions. Supported by donors.
RMI can pursue the highest-impact climate and energy solutions because we’re supported by people who believe change is possible. Every gift helps advance the work needed to make clean energy the default choice worldwide.
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