🎙️ Untangling Climate Finance: From Awareness to Action in Agriculture Finance with Maggie Monast

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“In agriculture finance, a small catalytic investment can mobilize significant commercial capital.”

– Maggie Monast

Untangling Climate Finance is back!

In our first episode of the new year, Jay connected with Maggie Monast, Senior Director, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), to explore how agriculture finance is moving from awareness to action on climate risk, and what it will take to scale climate-smart practices.

Maggie explains why agriculture is both highly exposed to climate impacts and a major opportunity for emissions reductions, and why aligning mainstream ag credit could dwarf today’s climate finance flows into food systems. She also unpacks how blended finance and value-chain incentives can help make proven solutions bankable for more farms.

Maggie breaks down:

✅ Why climate risk is now a material business risk for ag lenders
✅ What’s driving the shift from risk awareness to real products and services
✅ What farmers need from climate finance and how lenders can deliver
✅ How better tools can translate climate scenarios into practical credit decisions
✅ Why a small amount of catalytic capital in ag finance can unlock a massive amount of commercial capital

Maggie is eager to connect with investors who might be curious in getting involved in EDF’s upcoming Diary Impact Fund. To contact her directly, you can reach her at: mmonast@edf.org.

To connect with us at GKS, or to share feedback, please reach out to us at: communications@gordianknotstrategies.com.

Enjoy the ep!

Gordian Knot Strategies

We are Igniting Climate Solutions: Mobilizing $1 Billion Per Year in Impact Investment by 2030!

At Gordian Knot Strategies, our goal is to help mobilize $1 billion per year in climate finance. That is why we’re committed to making climate finance smarter and faster by addressing a broken impact investing screening process. That’s why we built Traro®, a predictive analytics platform designed to help investors rapidly triage opportunities with clarity, consistency, and confidence.

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