Catalyze Climate
A first-of-a-kind climate finance lab working on the mechanism of climate capital, not any single deal.
Catalyzing finance to enable global decarbonization.
Financing is a critical enabler of net zero, but it is not a standalone solution. Significant capital is required to fund the development, deployment and scaling of the climate technologies, infrastructure and projects needed to decarbonize the global economy — and the current investment landscape is not keeping pace with the commitments made at COP28.
Catalyze Climate's stated aim is to help mobilize the roughly $4 trillion a year the transition requires from the global financial system, and to keep a 1.5 °C pathway within reach. Its mission is to mobilize innovative financing mechanisms, accelerate technology deployment and scale climate infrastructure by fostering cross-sector collaboration across finance, policy and industry.
The pathway to mobilize finance.
The premise is that catalytic finance — a combination of grants and blended capital — plays a unique role in unlocking capital to bring technology to market and scale climate infrastructure.
1 · Convene industry stakeholders
Mobilize sufficient and effective finance into tackling climate change by getting the right parties in the room.
2 · Facilitate peer learning
Enable transactions through peer exchange, capacity building and shared experience of investing in emerging climate technology and infrastructure.
3 · Launch climate tech as an asset class
Create new assets designed to address specific industry challenges.
4 · Mobilize allocation commitments
Enable allocators to commit to climate-related assets rather than merely study them.
Three workstreams.
Peer learning and experience sharing
Facilitating transactions through peer exchange, capacity building and lessons learned among allocators.
Climate blended finance incubator
Creating new assets for specific industry challenges by partnering with industry and financial stakeholders.
Innovative capital case studies
Uncovering financing structures for climate across catalytic capital, blended finance and traditional asset classes.
Innovative insurance solutions.
A case study on de-risking first-of-a-kind technology deployment. Emerging decarbonization technologies face significant challenges when building FOAK plants: these projects require a balance between maximizing economic potential and mitigating the perceived risks that can make them unfinanceable. FOAK projects are seen as riskier and often carry higher upfront capital costs than the market will readily support.