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Through a multi-year partnership, the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) and Mirova aim to promote the emergence of blended finance as a lever for financing projects with a positive environmental and social impact through the progressive development of a dedicated global market.
Under the leadership of Caroline Flammer- SIPA Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, Director of SIRI, and Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University with joint appointments at SIPA and the Columbia Climate School- the parnership aims to:
- Foster rigorous academic research to gain deeper insights into best practices, opportunities, and limitations of blended finance and hereby help inform practive as well as contribute to the creation of academic knowledge.
- Provide a platform for dialogue among key stakeholders from the public and private sectors, policymakers, and universities.
- Contribute to the education of current and future generations of private, public and philantropic invesotrs.
The Biodiversity premium
Blended finance
SIRI is particularly qualified and ideally positioned to server as a leading international hub for dialogue, scholarships, and education on blended finance and to contribute to the expansion of the global market for blended finance.
To develop the blended finance market, it is essentiam to better understand current practices. This includes understanding the challegens and opportunities that arise to identify and develop projects that can be invested, the characteristics of effective public-private partnerships, balancing and allocating risks among investors, improving financing structures, and accelerating the growth of blended financial market, among other aspects.
Caroline Flamer
Director of SIRI
As part of the partnership between SIRI and MRC, we will be supporting academic research that is practice relevant, sharing the data and results derived from it, and promoting them to all our stakeholders to contribute to the rapid advancement of the implementation of new best practices in blended and support its growth.
Manuel Coselier
Head of Mirova Research Center
Key dates:
April 22, 2024:Inagural SIRI decisionmakers roundtable discussion on blended finance.September 24, 2024: 2nd SIRI decisionmakers blended finance roundtable discussion - India.
September 25, 2024:Conference on developing the global marketplace for blended finance.
June 13, 2025: 3rd SIRI decisionmakers roundtable discussion - Brasil.
August 1, 2025:Launch "Blended Finance" Survey
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