Ending eternal pilots: scaling MSME innovation for resilience

This session explores how to break through one of the biggest barriers in climate adaptation and resilience finance: the persistent gap between early-stage grant funding and the larger-scale commercial, public or institutional finance needed for solutions to scale.

Using an interactive format, micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) innovators will present the core structural financing challenges that are preventing them from scaling, such as ticket-size mismatches, the cost of capital or risk-perception gaps, while a panel of diverse capital actors will respond by identifying practical pathways to address these. 

The session will showcase how market-led adaptation and resilience can put communities in the driver’s seat while providing the scale and transparency required by institutional investors.