Webinar: The State of Climate Finance – Uncovering Gaps and Opportunities
Join us on Wednesday, April 23 at 1pm ET for a data-driven discussion on the climate finance landscape with Eric Berlow, CEO of Vibrant Data Labs, Maggie Cutts, VP of Partnerships at Vibrant Data Labs, and Dana Cotter, Managing Director of Impact at ImpactAssets.
This webinar will illuminate patterns in climate finance that are invisible to the human eye, highlighting opportunities for impact investors.
Join us on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 1pm ET.
Attendance Policy: This webinar is intended for current and potential impact investors interested in learning more about climate finance. Attendance is subject to ImpactAssets approval.
Webinar Details
In the next decade, trillions of dollars will flow into climate solutions. To ensure effective and equitable distribution of this capital, climate funders must consider the big picture of the investment landscape. Vibrant Data Labs’ groundbreaking Climate Finance Tracker has mapped relationships among over 10,000 U.S.-based climate-focused organizations representing over $350 billion in investments and grants, revealing trends, redundancies and critical funding gaps.
Eric Berlow is a data scientist and ecologist who has translated his expertise in mapping complex ecosystems into climate finance discoveries. Having spent years studying how species interactions create resilient natural systems, Eric now applies these same principles to analyze the climate investment landscape.
Impact investors and philanthropists can expect to come away with insights into:
- Understanding ecosystem potential in climate investing – where success of one solution can enable system-wide strength (and vice versa)
- Funding trends at the intersection of climate and social equity
- The role of private capital in catalyzing funding gaps
- Tangible investor actions to help scale climate solutions
Speakers
Eric Berlow
CEO, Vibrant Data Labs
Dr. Eric L. Berlow is a “Data Ecologist” who specializes in not specializing. Academically trained in ecology and complexity science, and professionally trained in ‘big data’, he is currently the CEO of Vibrant Data Labs – a social impact data science company building open-source tools to amplify the collective impact of funding for climate change solutions.
Dana Cotter (Moderator)
Managing Director of Impact, ImpactAssets
At ImpactAssets, Dana serves as the Managing Director of Impact where she leads impact programs, product strategy, and reporting. She works across the team to build strategies that enable more funding to flow to critical issue areas. Dana also cultivates investment pipeline, connecting impact funds and companies to the impact investing strategies set by ImpactAssets and its clients.
Maggie Cuts
VP of Partnerships, Vibrant Data Labs
As VP of Partnerships at Vibrant Data Labs, Maggie Cutts applies her expertise in catalytic capital and impact investing to maximize collective impact in climate finance. Maggie envisions a world where climate capital is deployed efficiently, transparently and creatively to maximize collective impact.
About Vibrant Data Labs
Vibrant Data Labs’ methodology combines machine learning, natural language processing and computational statistics with evidence-based inquiry to increase the collective impact of the ecosystem of climate funders. Through public tools and custom contracts, their team transforms complex data into accessible, visual, and searchable formats, and exposes crucial funding gaps across multiple types of capital. Their ambition is to make it easy for independent funders and investors to create impact that is greater than the sum of their parts.
About ImpactAssets’ Partners in Purpose Webinar Series
Partners in Purpose examines critical issues with leading experts, visionaries and changemakers. This series offers deep dive conversations on distinct topics within each of these areas, exploring the gaps in capital flows, and highlighting opportunities for impact investors to make a difference.
LEGAL AND PROGRAM DISCLAIMER: This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities, nor a private placement offering. The webinar is intended for informational, educational and discussion purposes only.
