Mobilizing Capital to Tackle Climate and Poverty
Hosted by Acumen
Acumen
Around the world, the poorest communities are on the front lines of climate change, yet they have the least access to the resources needed to adapt and thrive. In this immersive Fast Track session, founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz will share Acumen’s pioneering approach to deploying the right mix of capital to solve the toughest problems at the intersection of climate and poverty, from assembling a $250 million capital stack to bring clean energy to the hardest-to-reach people living without electricity to raising $300 million for agricultural adaptation for smallholder farmers—one of the largest such commitments in the world. Attendees will get to play investor and assess investment opportunities through Acumen’s framework of poverty focus and business viability. This Fast Track will explore what it takes to build systems rooted in dignity and challenge you to rethink investment as a tool for moral as well as economic transformation.
Approx. travel time from Convene via mass transit: 15 min walk