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Filling the “Missing Middle” to Scale Energy Breakthroughs: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Solutions

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Speakers

  • David M. HartCFR Expert
    Senior Fellow for Climate and Energy, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Vanessa Chan
    Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor, Materials Science and Engineering and Inaugural Vice-Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Pennsylvania

Presider

From Climate Realism.

A gap in private funding for companies and projects inhibits energy innovation in the United States. This “missing middle” slows or blocks technologies that could help the energy system become more secure, affordable, and sustainable, and weakens U.S. firms relative to Chinese and other international competitors. Join CFR’s Climate Realism Initiative as it launches Financing the Missing Middle, a collection of policies and strategies to help bridge that gap.

This event, and the essay collection itself, has been made possible through the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, under grant number G-2025-25233.