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.
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
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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
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Report
Regionalizing Transition Intelligence
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Report
Leveraging Transition Pathways
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Report
Recalibrating the Role of Banks in the Energy Transition
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Article
Tools for Financial Institutions Navigating the Energy Transition
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Article
From Bottlenecks to Breaking Ground: Why COP30 Must Prioritize Early-Stage Project Preparation
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Report
Creating Transition Intelligence
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Article
Financial Institutions Need Smarter Transition Intelligence — Here’s How
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Report
Beyond Financed Emissions
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Report
The Transition Finance Nexus
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Clean Energy 101: Nationally Determined Contributions
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Report
Climate Disclosure and Target Setting in the Agriculture Sector
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Article
Four Ways to Jump-Start Clean Hydrogen Finance in 2025
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Article
Tackling Climate Lending Risks
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Climate 101: NCQG, The Key Climate Goal Behind the Acronym
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Article
We Reviewed the Climate Disclosures of the World’s 100 Largest Financial Institutions
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Report
Planning for Net Zero: Best Practices for Indian Banks and NBFCs
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Article
On the Climate Bill’s Second Birthday, Surging Successes — But a Split Reality
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Article
Finding (Re)Purpose: The Power of a Pre-Feasibility Analysis in Coal Repurposing
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Transition Finance 101
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Article
Finding (Re)Purpose: Demystifying Coal Repurposing in the Global Energy Transition
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Report
Coal-to-Clean Success Stories
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Report
Transition Finance Case Studies: Logan and Chambers — Renegotiate, Refinance, Redevelop
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Report
Transition Finance Case Studies: ACEN — Project Sale to Special Purpose Vehicle
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Report
Transition Finance Case Studies: Tocopilla Units 14 and 15 — Results-Based Loan Incentive
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Article
Unpacking Five Key Barriers to Transition Finance
