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Climate Finance
How We’re Building Lighthouses for the Financial Sector
Emerging climate technologies like lithium mining and sustainable aviation fuel often face years of financing delays — not because of weak fundamentals, but because markets struggle to price new risks. RMI’s Deal Lab helps banks and developers align earlier, improve bankability, and accelerate debt financing for first-of-a-kind clean energy projects. By reducing transaction friction, Deal Lab unlocks private capital and speeds the energy transition.
Financing Community Clean Energy Projects in 2026
Four priorities for aligning community clean energy projects with investor and lender requirements without federal dollars.
Power Outages Cost More Than We Account For. Better Data Could Help.
Extreme weather power outages cause hidden economic losses. Better data can guide smarter resilience investments for utilities and communities.
How Climate-Vulnerable Countries and Territories Navigate a System Not Built for Them
The stories of CFAN advisors Rowena Tolentino in The Bahamas and Manon Marcadet in French Polynesia inform the uphill fight for climate finance in non-ODA countries and territories.
Tools for Financial Institutions Navigating the Energy Transition
RMI's new transition pathways tools will help financial institutions gain deep, decision-ready intelligence on the energy transition to stay competitive and manage risk.