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Climate Finance
Financing Community Clean Energy Projects in 2026
As federal clean energy funding recedes, community clean energy projects still face barriers to mainstream financing. Drawing on insights from 70 finance leaders, this article outlines four priorities for 2026 to align projects with investor credit requirements and scale resilient, local clean energy finance.
Power Outages Cost More Than We Account For. Better Data Could Help.
Extreme weather power outages cause hidden economic losses. Better data can guide smarter resilience investments for utilities and communities.
How Climate-Vulnerable Countries and Territories Navigate a System Not Built for Them
On the shores of the Caribbean and Pacific, two CFAN Advisors, out of a cohort of twenty globally, are steering their respective countries and regions toward resilience. Rowena Tolentino in The Bahamas and Manon Marcadet in French Polynesia are embedded advisors under the Climate Finance Access Network (CFAN), working directly…
Tools for Financial Institutions Navigating the Energy Transition
RMI's new transition pathways tools will help financial institutions gain deep, decision-ready intelligence on the energy transition to stay competitive and manage risk.
From Bottlenecks to Breaking Ground: Why COP30 Must Prioritize Early-Stage Project Preparation
Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) are rich in climate ambition, yet face a debilitating paradox: they have plenty of early-stage project concepts, but insufficient early-stage finance and, in many cases, limited technical capacity to transition from concept to reality. Every year at COP and other international venues, financiers and…