A curated library of resources to learn about climate change

India needs increased climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation measures that address climate change. This infographic details global climate finance requirements, available finance, and key mitigation and adaptation areas that are receiving attention.

Green finance flows in India are falling far short of the country’s current needs. This report evaluates private and public finance flows to key economy sectors (clean energy, clean transport, and energy efficiency), and builds a framework to track finance flows from source to end beneficiaries.

While the public sector carries the weight of social sector spending in India, private philanthropy can step up and play a catalytic role in bridging the funding gap. This report assesses giving trends across CSR, family philanthropy, and others, in legacy causes and new ones like climate action.

Philanthropic giving to climate change mitigation has seen a significant increase, but this still accounts for a small fraction of overall giving globally. This report details funding trends in climate change mitigation philanthropy over seven years of funding data from 2015 to 2021.

In this interview, Shloka Nath (CEO, ICC) talks about the catalytic role of philanthropic capital for climate action, the need for strong and inclusive climate leadership in the global South, and why climate philanthropy must focus on both mitigation and adaptation. 

In this article, Mirik Gogri (Sustainability Investor, Spectrum Impact) dwells on how philanthropists can support the climate tech innovation landscape. For this, the philanthropic mindset must expand from assured immediate impact to the potential for long-term impact.

In this article, Shloka Nath (CEO, ICC) and Varad Pande (Sustainability Investor and Advisor), discuss five ways in which philanthropy can support strategic and systemic climate action – including supporting foundational research, capacity building, climate-friendly policy reform, and public awareness.

Climate change’s negative effects are coming to bear on high-priority philanthropic issues. This article explores how more and better funding can protect vulnerable stakeholders and speed up the net-zero transition across the world.

While philanthropic capital is nimble and can take risks to support climate action, it isn’t always clear how it can be deployed for effective climate action. This guide provides a framework for climate philanthropy, offering key insights and best practices for high impact action and systemic change.

Climate change is cross-cutting, impacting multiple development priorities. Climate action is an important lens for domestic philanthropy to improve community-based projects, write Shloka Nath (CEO, ICC) and Isha Chawla, (Associate – Climate Solutions Platform, ICC).

In this article, Sameer Shisodia (CEO, Rainmatter Foundation) reflects on how to frame the climate crisis before devising solutions. Climate action must recognise the interconnectedness of different systems, that climate is a ‘place’ problem, and avoid problem-solving in silos, among others.

Mitigation can align climate action with long-term community well-being in India, by accounting for equity. Padma Venkataraman (Communications Associate, ICC) discusses how philanthropists are uniquely suited to build an equity lens into mitigation ambition, through available levers of impact.

More often than not, people are aware that their work and actions have climate adjacencies; but climate change, as a sector, is still viewed in isolation. This report makes climate linkages across sectors and projects clear through four case studies.

This report assess the extent to which philanthropists are currently working in the climate sphere in Asia, with a major focus on the Southeast Asia and South Asia regions, and provides recommendations to advance strategic climate philanthropy in the region.

In this article, Ashwini Saxena (CEO, JSW Foundation) reflects on how funders can re-imagine India’s development paradigm in the face of climate risks, and accelerate funding towards inclusive, innovative climate solutions through an effective climate solutions platform.

In this interview, P.S. Narayan (Global Head of Sustainability and Social Initiatives at Wipro Ltd., and Managing Trustee at Wipro Foundation) talks about how CSR funders can approach equitable climate action and inclusive climate solutions that address developmental needs.

In this article, Manavi Bhardwaj (Senior Manager, ICC) and Paras Singh (Associate – Climate Solutions Platform, ICC) dwell on how to harness the potential of CSR funding for climate solutions that have development co-benefits, and outline how CSR can fund impactful solutions.