Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance

This policy brief by RMI discusses the challenges financial institutions face when aligning investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement's decarbonization goals, proposing a sector-by-sector approach to overcome these barriers.

• By the end of 2019, financial institutions with assets totaling $17.2 trillion had pledged to align their investment portfolios with the decarbonization objectives of the Paris Agreement.
• The document identifies five common barriers that financial institutions encounter when trying to align the emissions impacts of their activities and portfolios with global decarbonization targets, suggesting that a sector-by-sector approach offers an effective and pragmatic solution.

APA

RMI (2020). Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance. https://rmi.org/resources/navigating-five-barriers-to-climate-aligned-finance/

Chicago

RMI. Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance. 2020. https://rmi.org/resources/navigating-five-barriers-to-climate-aligned-finance/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=RMI |title=Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance |date=19 March 2020 |url=https://rmi.org/resources/navigating-five-barriers-to-climate-aligned-finance/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2020charting, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Charting the Course to Climate-Aligned Finance}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2020}, month = mar, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/navigating-five-barriers-to-climate-aligned-finance/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }