Rewiring Climate Finance: Building a Collaborative Green Economy
Climate and impact finance is growing, but growth has not necessarily created a coherent market. The ecosystem remains fragmented: many small actors are trying to solve multiple problems at once, large-scale pools of capital remain limited, and approaches to measuring impact and understanding success often differ from one funder or investor to the next.
If climate finance is going to operate at meaningful scale, does the ecosystem itself need to change?
Simply reproducing the structures of conventional financial markets is unlikely to be enough. Climate and impact capital is being asked to deliver different kinds of value, balancing financial performance with social and environmental outcomes, often in places where markets and financial infrastructure are still developing. That requires different forms of capital, expertise, and influence to work together with much greater intention.
This conversation will bring large and small funders, impact measurement specialists, networks, entrepreneurs, and policymakers into the same room to explore what a more collaborative green economy could look like. Where should different actors specialize rather than compete or duplicate? How can smaller, locally rooted investors connect to larger pools of capital? What shared approaches to impact could create greater trust and coherence without forcing diverse investments into a single measurement framework?
The goal is not simply to diagnose why climate finance remains fragmented. It is to explore the practical architecture that could make it work better: clearer roles, stronger partnerships, more connected pathways for capital, and a shared understanding of the outcomes the ecosystem is ultimately trying to produce.
What to expect
An action-focused working conversation rather than a series of presentations. Participants will draw on their different positions within the climate finance ecosystem to identify where fragmentation is holding back capital and impact, and where greater collaboration could make a meaningful difference.
The group will focus on pathways forward, exploring the partnerships, structures, and shared practices that could help different forms of capital work together more effectively and reach greater scale.
Who this is for
This session is for climate and impact investors, philanthropic and institutional funders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, impact measurement practitioners, networks, and others interested in building a more connected and effective ecosystem for financing the green economy.
What you will get out of it
A clearer view of where fragmentation is limiting the effectiveness and scale of climate finance
New perspectives on the distinct roles different forms of capital and expertise can play
Practical ideas for connecting smaller and locally rooted actors with larger pools of finance
A deeper exploration of how impact can be understood and measured across a diverse ecosystem
Potential partnerships and pathways toward a more collaborative green economy
Hosted by
Resilient Futures Fund