The roundtable seeks to explore how India can accelerate the deployment of critical industrial decarbonisation technologies, particularly those in the TRL 5–9 range (CCUS, GH2 DRI EAF, Waste heat recovery and Industrial electrification) by addressing financing gap and identifying practical solutions to mitigate barriers.
Continuing the Mumbai Climate Week dialogue, this session will focus on translating coastal climate risks into bankable blue finance pipelines through a sovereign lens, with emphasis on national level policy, fiscal frameworks, and public finance strategies. It will explore how governments can enable subnational action through regulatory alignment, sovereign backed instruments, and support for city level project preparation and access to capital. The discussion will highlight the role of blended finance, sovereign guarantees, and public financial institutions in crowding in private capital and unlocking scalable coastal resilience solutions.
The report draws on insights from a multi-stakeholder dialogue convened during Mumbai Climate Week 2026 to examine the opportunities and structural challenges shaping blue finance for urban coastal resilience in emerging markets. It highlights the scale of financing needs alongside key barriers such as risk mispricing, tenor mismatches, fragmented governance, and limited bankable project pipelines, while outlining critical market preconditions including regulatory clarity, standardised frameworks, and stronger project aggregation. The report also explores the role of blended finance, credit enhancement, and risk transfer mechanisms in addressing risk-return gaps and presents emerging structuring solutions to help transition blue finance into a scalable asset class that can support climate-resilient development and financial stability.
This report draws on insights from a high-level roundtable convened during Mumbai Climate Week 2026 to examine pathways for financing India’s agri–energy transition. It captures stakeholder perspectives across financial institutions, policymakers, and market enablers to identify key barriers and opportunities in mobilising capital toward the agri-energy nexus. The report highlights structural challenges such as limited capital market readiness among mid-sized NBFCs, regulatory and disclosure gaps, and high transaction costs, while also outlining emerging opportunities within platforms like GIFT City and NSE International Exchange. It further provides a strategic roadmap to bridge the “missing middle” in climate finance by strengthening institutional readiness, enabling access to transition bond markets, and unlocking scalable, market-based solutions to support India’s climate and development goals.
Under the aegis of Mumbai Climate Week 2026, this high-level, closed-door roundtable seeks to bring together NBFCs, financial institutions, institutional investors, regulators and rating agencies to unlock capital at scale for agri energy assets, expand NBFC participation in bond markets, examine policy and regulatory frameworks, and identify practical solutions for structuring, de-risking and scaling sustainability- and transition-linked instruments.
Why are sustainable food systems central to climate resilience and inclusive growth in emerging markets? A sustainable food system is central to delivering food security, nutrition, climate resilience, and rural…
By aligning public finance, development finance, and private capital around clearly defined blue economy and resilience opportunities, the event seeks to strengthen investment pipelines for flood-resilient infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and coastal protection.
The report provides a market overview of sustainable finance in 2025. It also offers deep dives into blue finance as an emerging investment frontier, highlighting the scale of the ocean economy, the significant funding gap for SDG 14, and recent policy and market developments. Additionally, it analyses innovative financing instruments such as blue bonds, debt-for-nature swaps, and outcome-based bonds through detailed case studies from Ecuador, Indonesia, and The Bahamas.
Paris Agreement ambitions and the centrality of climate finance Nearly a decade after the Paris Agreement, which targets 1.5°C, was adopted, the average global temperature is on a trajectory toward…
Unlocking funding solutions for climate-vulnerable communities (SIDS, LDCs and EMDEs) Climate change imposes irreversible impacts on vulnerable nations, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and emerging…
