The Climate Briefing: Climate finance 2: Private finance, polycrisis and positive shocks

Ruth Townend discusses how private finance might close the climate finance gap with Dr Nicola Ranger and Professor Patrick Bolton.

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Published 7 August 2024

Updated 11 July 2025 — 40-minute-listen

Dr Nicola Ranger

Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab, ECI, Oxford University

Coming fresh from a discussion of how private finance might close the climate finance gap, Ruth Townend is joined by Dr Nicola Ranger, Director of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab at Oxford University, and Professor Patrick Bolton, professor of finance and economics at Imperial College London.

In the run up to COP29, we explore how public international finance might be deployed to most effectively mobilise private finance, why so much private finance is still going to hydrocarbon-intensive energy investments, and the destiny of the World Bank.

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