Climate Finance and Innovation

With changing geo-political and technological disruptions, the need for new strategies and models to accelerate climate capital deployment and advance economic resilience is a critical topic for investors and stakeholders. As a trusted nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, the Milken Institute convenes local, national, and global leaders who direct investment capital and philanthropy into high-impact climate solutions and high-need areas, ensuring that funding flows to where it is needed most, in ways that are sustainable, scalable, and adaptable to shifting global and regional dynamics.  

Key activity areas that we focus on include the strategic recalibration of public and private investment in sustainability, the new economics of climate resilience, nature as an asset class, critical minerals, climate debt, effective climate resilience narrative, and investor events in key regions.

In the lead-up to COP31 in Türkiye, the Institute is advancing a paradigm shift in climate finance.  The strategy: building continuity and climate capital deployment between COPs, led by investor innovation to bolster government-led efforts moving forward. Learn more about the strategy in our new Acceleration Agenda Working Paper.