Scaling Up Resilience and Sustainability Financing

“What we cannot survive is an unmitigated climate crisis,” MD Georgieva opened the IFF, BWC, and Paulson Institute event with the strongest possible language on climate crisis. Considering this, the panel felt that there was reason to be optimistic. Georgieva was happy to announce that there were 44 countries in line for RST funding and the panel felt that this may be a reflection of the need for longer horizon financing from the fund and expected even more countries to get in line. While there remains work to be done on an effective way to bring private capital into the solution, there was general agreement that actionable solutions were within reach.