Climate Finance

Enabling the Global Financial Sector’s Transformative Role in Financing a Clean, Prosperous, and Secure Future for All

$125T

investment opportunity in clean energy

70%

proportion of investment needed from private sources

$1.3T

annual financing needs of the Global South in 2025–2030

We Must

Equip financial institutions to make financing and strategic decisions that enable the transition while delivering competitive returns.

Increase the pipeline of bankable projects that support the energy transition.

Crowd in finance by elevating and supporting critical market-enabling incentives and catalytic capital.

RMI Will

Guide and advise financial institutions in embedding climate considerations into firm- and sector-level strategies through direct engagement, capacity building, data and tools, frameworks, and thought leadership.

Accelerate market maturity by convening key stakeholders to address transaction-level barriers and unlock replicable, real-economy deals that no single actor can enable alone.

Support project developers and companies in accessing affordable capital for transition-enabling technology deployment.

Expand opportunities for investments, address systematic barriers, and empower local actors to increase the flow of capital to the Global South.

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RMI is helping the financial sector turn its climate commitments into reality.

Market Levers

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Policy

Enable regulators to send clear and robust policy signals to the financial sector

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Technology

Accelerate commercial-scale financing of new, low-carbon technologies

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Data Transparency

Provide decision-useful information to and about the financial sector

What We Do

  • Center for Climate-Aligned Finance

    Helping financial institutions partner with their clients to develop practical and scalable solutions to the barriers to climate alignment

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  • Climate Finance Access Network

    Unlocking climate finance by building lasting capacity in developing countries.

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  • PACTA

    The Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) is an open-source and free of charge software application that enables users to measure the alignment of financial portfolios with climate scenarios as well as analyze specific companies.

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  • Engage and Act

    Engage & Act is a platform that allows investors and other key stakeholders to easily explore the opportunities and risks investor-owned utilities face in the transition to a reliable, affordable, and clean energy system. It provides forward-looking data and RMI expertise that answers the questions: Which utilities say they’re leading the way? Which utilities are actually leading the way? How have utilities’ plans changed over time?

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  • Transition Finance

    The most comprehensive resource available for financial institutions to learn more about how to accelerate transition finance in their institution.

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Research & Analysis