Climate Finance Reading List

I've been learning more about the challenges and opportunities for financing climate solutions. I started collecting some resources so I can find them again, and I figured I'd share them for others who might be interested.

According to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, there are a handful of climate mitigations that will make an outsize contribution to net emissions reduction. Something they all have in common is that there are challenges to deploying sufficient capital in these areas. The more I learn, the more persuaded I am that we have to design and deploy finance solutions that will let us accelerate progress in energy transition and in land management.

If you have more things I should read, please share them!

Articles

• David Riester writes that impact investing is unglamorous. I'm a huge fan of the unglamorous. Remember, in its original meaning a "glamor" was a spell, a trick to make something seem better than it is.
• Alex Brown at Keyframe Capital makes the case for structured finance for startups focused on the energy transition.
• Energize Capital on finance innovation in the energy transition.
• Perl Street on debt financing for climate hardware startups.
• Amanda Li of Banyan Infrastructure on making sustainable infrastructure investment more sustainable.
• Footprint Coalition on opportunities for climate funding in the wake of the SVB collapse.
• IMF on blended finance.
• UNFCCC introduction to climate finance.

Books

• Aunnie Patton Power 's Adventure Finance gives an in-depth account of alternatives to "traditional" VC and loan financing.
• It's an older book, but Jenny Chase's ( BloombergNEF ) Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon gives a solid overview of the considerations in financing solar projects.