Connecting research to the world Climate finance needs more than good science. It needs the right connections between researchers, investors, policymakers and the next generation of practitioners. Our engagement work builds those connections, turning research into relationships and ideas into action.
Initiatives and programmes
The Climate Investment Challenge
The Climate Investment Challenge (CIC) is a student-led competition supported and mentored by the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment (CCFI). It brings together postgraduate students from leading universities worldwide to work in teams across finance, policy and data science. Participants design and pitch financial solutions that can unlock investment and scale climate action across sectors and geographies. Throughout the challenge, participants gain access to CCFI's global network of climate finance practitioners, along with mentorship, visibility and opportunities to develop their ideas further. The CIC supports the next generation of climate finance leaders while advancing practical approaches to getting more capital into climate-positive outcomes.
Advisory board
Our advisory board brings together senior leaders from finance, investment, clean energy and climate policy. Their role is to review our research and education priorities each year, advise on how to keep our work relevant to real markets, and share experience and knowledge on the questions that matter most to financial and strategic investors.
Advisory board members:
- Deirdre Cooper, Head of Sustainable Equity, Ninety One
- Tom Delay, Founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Carbon Trust
- Chris Hunt, Co-Founder and Partner, Sandbrook Capital
- Justin Keeble, Founder, Nyamira Lab
- Peter Knott, Chief Risk Officer, National Wealth Fund
- Jason Mitchell, Head of Responsible Investment, MAN Group
- David Scaysbrook, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
- Teki Tetteh-Wright, Manager, Climate and Development Finance, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
- Louise Wilson, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Abundance
"Clean energy projects are delivering increasingly competitive electricity and proving themselves to be reliable, low-risk investments. The Centre for Climate Finance and Investment is pointing the way towards the financial innovations that will unlock another step-change in growth for the industry."
Louise Wilson,
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Abundance
Research partnerships
The Centre is grateful for the support of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, its founding partner benefactor. Quinbrook manages direct investments in low-carbon and renewable energy assets and businesses. Its management team has more than three decades of experience investing in global power and energy infrastructure, with a focus on the energy transition, renewables, battery storage and related infrastructure.
CCFI also benefits from the support of leading organisations including Standard Chartered, The Gatsby Foundation, Lloyd's Foundation, Terraformation, Howden Group and the Singapore Green Finance Centre, which have supported a range of research and applied projects across climate finance, resilience, risk analytics, risk transfer and sustainable investment.
The Centre also collaborates with ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ initiatives including the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, the Hitachi-³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions, and the Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance. These collaborations connect CCFI with expertise across climate science, finance, energy systems, nature-based solutions, industrial strategy and economic resilience.
Together, these supporters and collaborators strengthen the Centre's capacity to develop rigorous, market-relevant research and practical solutions that advance climate risk analytics, intelligent capital allocation, energy security, economic resilience and sustainable growth.