The MIT Catalytic Climate Finance Project (CCFP)
at MIT Sloan School of Management’s Sustainability Initiative
Imagine a world where we successfully slowed down climate change. A world where green technologies become the obvious economic choice for purely cost-benefit reasons making fossil-based technologies disappear. A world where private and public actors work together to scale green innovation.
We've seen this before. Solar power was once prohibitively expensive. A mix of public and private funding drove costs down dramatically to make it cost-competitive. In 2014, 1% of global electricity generation came from solar, today it is more than 8.8% making it the fastest growing source of electricity. Even investors who disagree about climate politics often invest in solar for one reason: it makes financial sense.
The mission of the MIT Catalytic Climate Finance Project (CCFP) is to make the case of solar repeatable across the next generation of climate technologies.
Unlocking Investment for Climate Technologies
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What is the CCFP?
CCFP is building the financial architecture for climate scale-up. We are a research initiative within MIT Sloan’s Sustainability Initiative focused on catalytic climate finance, operating at the intersection of engineering, economics, finance, and market design. This multidisciplinary positioning allows CCFP to address a structural gap: the financial systems that determine whether climate technologies scale.
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What does the CCFP do?
CCFP produces actionable research, tools, and market design guidance for four core audiences: investors, policymakers/regulators, and industry leaders.
We convene stakeholders and train the next generation of climate finance leaders, strengthening the bridge between research and decision-making.
