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 outcompete fossil alternatives with ease. A world where these 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.
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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 CCFP do?
CCFP produces actionable research, tools, and market design guidance for four core audiences: investors, policymakers/regulators, industry leaders, and financial actors.
We convene stakeholders and train the next generation of climate finance leaders, strengthening the bridge between research and decision-making.