This closed-door roundtable was hosted in collaboration with Climate and Sustainability Initiative at the Mumbai Climate Week 2026. It brought together representatives from banks, development finance institutions, institutional investors, developers, and ratings agencies including Bluedot Capital, India Infrastructure Finance Company, Standard Chartered Bank, BNP Paribas among others.
Participants discussed how India’s financial system is funding the clean energy transition alongside challenges encountered. While banks continue to serve as primary lenders, they face balance sheet constraints as financing needs scale. Meanwhile, institutional investors such as pension and insurance funds hold large pools of long-term capital suited to infrastructure financing, yet regulatory norms and investment mandates constrain how much of this capital can flow into transition assets.
A central focus of the discussion was how the transition is constrained less by capital availability and more by financial architecture, particularly how institutions align mandates and share risk across the financing ecosystem.
