Across climate and nature transitions, promising solutions often struggle to achieve meaningful scale, not because of a lack of innovation, but because of the lack of supporting infrastructure surrounding it. Financing mechanisms, market structures, policy realities, and partnerships frequently remain uncoordinated, underdeveloped, or non-existent, preventing proven approaches from achieving broader adoption and impact.
Through its GAEA Awards portfolio and Big Bets Accelerator, the World Economic Forum's Global Accelerator for Earth Action examines both sides of this challenge: examples of catalytic collaboration already demonstrating impact, and where new forms of infrastructure and partnership may be required to address persistent gaps.
Bringing together leaders from successful climate and nature partnerships, funders, and investors, this session uses GAEA's portfolio examples to ground the conversation around a central question: what infrastructure is still missing to enable climate and nature solutions to achieve system-level impact? Participants examine the enabling conditions that have supported growth, the barriers that continue to constrain progress, and where new forms of collaboration may be needed.
