Unlocking Critical Finance for
Climate & Economic Resilience
Scaling impact through inclusive, community-led climate action.
Climate resilience isn’t just an environmental necessity, it’s an economic imperative.
Around the world, innovators are proving that climate action and inclusive growth go hand-in-hand. Yet critical funding gaps leave high-impact solutions underfunded and overlooked.
Our report, Unlocking Critical Finance for Climate and Economic Resilience, draws on the real experiences of innovators in The Earthshot Prize portfolio and invaluable insights from our supporting partners and contributors to reveal:
- The barriers to scaling inclusive, sustainable finance and how to overcome them through targeted financial mechanisms.
- How linking investment with inclusive finance and community-driven solutions can maximise impact and resilience.
- Practical tools to unlock scale, create jobs, improve lives and foster long-term economic inclusion in the face of climate challenges.
Unlocking Critical Finance for Climate and Economic Resilience
Dive into high-impact case studies with key insights from innovators and investors on the frontline of inclusive, community-led climate action.
Meet the global innovations driving climate and economic resilience
In Unlocking Critical Finance for Climate and Economic Resilience we spotlight 25 solutions using strategic investment to deliver prosperity and resilience for communities around the world.
Rooted in a Shared Economic Prosperity framework that encompasses economic wellbeing, equity, resilience, and financial inclusion, these innovations reveal how patient, blended finance can bridge funding gaps and unlock a more inclusive, resilient climate economy.
Selected Case Studies
The financial systems we need aren't broken, they're unfinished.
Help us build what comes next.
Structural barriers prevent capital flowing to the frontlines of climate impact, leading to severe underinvestment in local adaptation, a missing middle for crucial growth-stage enterprises, and a mispricing of climate risk that hinders effective allocation.
This report highlights that fit-for-purpose financial mechanisms do exist and are essential tools for unlocking private investment, empowering local actors, and accelerating long-term adaptation.
What’s needed now is application and scale.
Five Key Mechanisms
01. Blended Finance
Blended Finance combines public and private funds to unlock essential investments.
02. Innovative Insurance
Insurance reduces financial uncertainty and protecting livelihoods against climate shocks.
03. Impact Finance
Outcome-Based Finance ties financial returns directly to measurable resilience and economic outcomes.
04. Inclusive Carbon Markets
Inclusive Carbon Markets generate predictable income from climate-positive activities to finance adaptation.
05. Aggregation & Local Intermediaries
Aggregation & Local Intermediaries bundles smaller projects to create investable scale for locally-led solutions.
Unlocking Critical Finance for Climate and Economic Resilience
Dive into high-impact case studies with key insights from innovators and investors on the frontline of inclusive, community-led climate action.
