Climate Finance

Accelerating the Global Financial Sector's Transition to Climate Alignment and the Financing of a Just, Equitable, and Secure Net Zero Future

$125T

investment required to reach net zero by 2050

70%

proportion of investment needed from private sources

$1.3T

annual financing needs of the Global South in 2025–2030

We Must

Ensure global financial institutions execute their net-zero strategies in line with Earth’s carbon budget

Harmonize the financial sector’s actions with those of policymakers and companies

Increase capital deployed to the global south to mitigate and adapt to climate change tenfold

RMI Will

Clarify what robust net-zero commitments mean for different types of financial institutions

Enable financial institutions to work together to finance the transition of carbon-intensive sectors like steel, shipping, and aviation to net-zero emissions.

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

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

Market Levers

Policy

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

Technology

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

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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