The case addresses the global challenge of mobilising investment and coordination to achieve climate and biodiversity targets. This requires overcoming several systemic challenges, including: 

• Sector-specific barriers – gaps in financing, misaligned standards, and inconsistent regulatory frameworks across critical sectors like energy, food systems, and mining. 

• Insufficient capital flows – current investment levels fall far short of what is needed to meet the Paris Agreement and Global Biodiversity Framework goals. 

• Fragmented efforts – actors work in silos, limiting systemic change. 

• Lack of credible pipelines – few bankable projects delivering both returns and positive impact. 

• Limited cross-sector collaboration – few trusted global platforms to align strategies and drive collective action. 

Hosted by the World Climate Foundation, the World Impact Coalitions bring together governments, financial institutions, businesses, and knowledge partners to co-develop investment frameworks, launch joint commitments, and deploy scalable solutions in critical transition sectors.

Current applications include:

• Climate Investment Coalition (CIC) and Nature Investment Coalition (NIC): Originally a partnership between Nordic and UK pension funds to accelerate renewable energy projects worldwide, is now a global collaboration that catalyses real Investments for climate and biodiversity-positive solutions. By connecting institutional investors with conservation projects, technology providers, and policy actors, and piloting investment frameworks to enable scale.

• Future of Mining Coalition (FOMC): Convening global mining stakeholders to co-design targeted interventions in three areas:

• 21st Century Mining Operations – reducing methane leaks, electrifying equipment and transport, and integrating renewable energy into mining power supply.

• Biodiversity & Nature Adaptation – addressing nature-related risks, managing water stress, reducing pollution, and advancing land rehabilitation.

• Circular Economy in Mining – expanding metal recycling capabilities to reduce reliance on virgin material extraction.

• Future of Food Coalition (FOFC): Mobilising international capital flows for regenerative agriculture and protein diversification by identifying finance-ready solutions and convening institutional investors, agribusiness leaders, innovators, policy actors, and standards bodies to accelerate adoption.

Across all coalitions, the key leverage point is partnership-building, using the World Climate Foundation’s high-level global network to align finance, innovation, and policy and drive large-scale implementation.

The World Impact Coalitions are delivering measurable outcomes for each of its coalitions: 

• In close collaboration with Nordic Prime Ministers and leading pension fund CEOs, the Climate Investment Coalition announced a landmark US$130 billion in total commitments at COP26 from 42 Nordic and UK pension funds towards clean energy and climate solutions to be invested globally by 2030.​

• The Future of Mining Coalition is uniting governments, industry leaders, and investors at New York Climate Week and COP30 to create the sector’s first global transition roadmap, aligning standards and investment towards low-carbon, circular, and nature-positive mining operations.

• The Future of Food Coalition is building a coalition of investors, agribusinesses, innovators, and policymakers to unlock new finance flows for regenerative agriculture and alternative proteins, to identify finance-ready solutions that can be advanced through the coalition’s network and mobilise international flows into regenerative agriculture and protein diversification.