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While not necessarily the flashiest topic, the way that we finance the continued transition to sustainable technologies

is crucial if we want to fight climate change. But for finance innovator, Radima Yadavav,

global climate is at a standstill because according to her, investors are prioritizing

perfection over progress. In this talk, she shares why limiting investments to a narrowly defined group of projects

hurts more than it helps, ways to close the current funding gap,

and why engaging pragmatically with high-emitting sectors instead of freezing them out

might be a key step in financing climate action.

Thank you. might be a key step in financing climate action. Climate finance finds itself in a confused position today in 2025.

It is viewed as insufficient by many, as a niche by mainstream finance, and as elusive by everyone

else.

And yet, financing a clean growth economy relies entirely on the real money.

Today, we are investing a little over a trillion dollars every year globally in the energy transition.

By our best estimates, we need that number to rise to 3.5 trillion every year between now and 2050.

Why is there a gap?

As a financier and investor myself,

I've been at the heart of how financial institutions

and institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds,

asset managers, asset owners and banks,

think and act on the clean energy transition.

And I believe there is one major fault line in global climate finance.

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