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Climate Innovation Fund
Accelerating Community-Driven Climate Solutions
Will you help unlock the power of people to unite their communities in the face of climate change?
Our Proven Model for Community Transformation
SEED
Investments in the Climate Innovation Fund are used to listen, learn, and launch innovative pilot projects.
SCALE
Once pilot projects have demonstrated success, ISC approaches government, foundation, and corporate funders to leverage deeper investments and scale the projects for maximum impact.
SUSTAIN
ISC maintains a strong focus on enhancing the capacity of local communities and partners, so they own and sustain the work when our involvement ends.
ISC’s Climate Priorities
For every dollar invested in the Climate Innovation Fund, here’s what’s possible…
Five years ago, local leaders down here, Republicans and Democrats, formed the bipartisan Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact — an agreement to work together to fight climate change. And it’s become a model not just for the country, but for the world.
How You Can Help
Current Vision Projects
Urban Energy Investment Challenge
Green banks are public or non-profit financing mechanisms that use limited public dollars to leverage greater private investment in clean energy. They accelerate clean energy market growth while making energy cheaper and cleaner for consumers, driving job creation, and preserving taxpayer dollars. The goal of the Urban Energy Investment Challenge is to create 100 or more metropolitan green banks in the next 10 years.
Urban Climate Solutions Academies
More US cities than ever before are focused on climate action – but many are being left behind or are struggling to implement their plans due to political and institutional barriers. To address this need, ISC will create a network of Urban Climate Solutions Academies, each aligned with a major university, which will act as a sustained training program for urban practitioners focused squarely on creating low-to-zero carbon cities.
New Regional Resilience Networks
Working for resilience at the regional scale is one of the most effective ways to make our communities stronger and able to better handle climate and economic change. ISC is building on our successes in Southeast Florida, the Gulf Coast, and elsewhere to replicate this network model in other regions that have reached out for our support, including Houston, Northeast Illinois, the Colorado Front Range, and Puerto Rico.
US/China Low Carbon Cities Exchange
Cities in both the US and China have made aggressive commitments to reducing carbon emissions. A platform that facilitates practical exchanges for sharing, refining, and replicating strategies and best practices between the countries will provide urban practitioners with concrete tools and incentives to accelerate low carbon development where it matters most.
