The State of Climate Finance – Uncovering Gaps and Opportunities
Join us on Wednesday, April 23 at 10a PT for a data-driven discussion on the climate finance landscape with Eric Berlow, CEO of Vibrant Data Labs, Maggie Cutts, VP of Partnerships at Vibrant Data Labs, and Dana Cotter, Managing Director of Impact at ImpactAssets.
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In the next decade, trillions of dollars will flow into climate solutions. To ensure effective and equitable distribution of this capital, climate funders must consider the big picture of the investment landscape. Vibrant Data Labs’ groundbreaking Climate Finance Tracker has mapped relationships among over 10,000 U.S.-based climate-focused organizations representing over $350 billion in investments and grants, revealing trends, redundancies and critical funding gaps.
Eric Berlow is a data scientist and ecologist who has translated his expertise in mapping complex ecosystems into climate finance discoveries. Having spent years studying how species interactions create resilient natural systems, Eric now applies these same principles to analyze the climate investment landscape.
Impact investors and philanthropists can expect to come away with insights into:
Understanding ecosystem potential in climate investing – where success of one solution can enable system-wide strength (and vice versa)
Funding trends at the intersection of climate and social equity
The role of private capital in catalyzing funding gaps
Tangible investor actions to help scale climate solutions
Speakers
Eric Berlow
CEO, Vibrant Data Labs
Dr. Eric L. Berlow is a “Data Ecologist” who specializes in not specializing. Academically trained in ecology and complexity science, and professionally trained in ‘big data’, he is currently the CEO of Vibrant Data Labs – a social impact data science company building open-source tools to amplify the collective impact of funding for climate change solutions.
Maggie Cuts
VP of Partnerships, Vibrant Data Labs
As VP of Partnerships at Vibrant Data Labs, Maggie Cutts applies her expertise in catalytic capital and impact investing to maximize collective impact in climate finance. Maggie envisions a world where climate capital is deployed efficiently, transparently and creatively to maximize collective impact.
Dana Cotter (Moderator)
Managing Director of Impact, ImpactAssets
At ImpactAssets, Dana serves as the Managing Director of Impact where she leads impact programs, product strategy, and reporting. She works across the team to build strategies that enable more funding to flow to critical issue areas. Dana also cultivates investment pipeline, connecting impact funds and companies to the impact investing strategies set by ImpactAssets and its clients.
About Vibrant Data Labs
Vibrant Data Labs’ methodology combines machine learning, natural language processing and computational statistics with evidence-based inquiry to increase the collective impact of the ecosystem of climate funders. Through public tools and custom contracts, their team transforms complex data into accessible, visual, and searchable formats, and exposes crucial funding gaps across multiple types of capital. Their ambition is to make it easy for independent funders and investors to create impact that is greater than the sum of their parts.
About ImpactAssets
ImpactAssets is an impact investing leader dedicated to changing the trajectory of the planet’s future and improving the lives of all people. As a leading impact investing firm, ImpactAssets offers deep strategic expertise to help its clients define and execute on their impact goals. Founded in 2010, ImpactAssets increases flows of money to impact investing in partnership with its clients through its impact investment platform, philanthropic solutions, and field-building initiatives, including the IA 50 database of private debt and equity impact fund managers. ImpactAssets has more than $3 billion in assets, working with purpose-driven individuals and their wealth managers, family offices, foundations, and corporations. ImpactAssets is an independent 501(c)(3) organization. is an independent 501(c)(3) organization.
About ImpactAssets’ Partners in Purpose Webinar Series
Partners in Purpose examines critical issues with leading experts, visionaries and changemakers. This series offers deep dive conversations on distinct topics within each of these areas, exploring the gaps in capital flows, and highlighting opportunities for impact investors to make a difference.
Attendance Policy: This webinar is intended for current and potential impact investors interested in learning more about climate finance. Attendance is subject to ImpactAssets approval.
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