In the next interview of our series From Arctic to Antarctic: A Global Story of Change and Stewardship, Bapon Fakhruddin, Water Sector Lead at Green Climate Fund, reflects on one of the key challenges shaping the future of polar action: closing the financing gap and mobilising greater investment for the Arctic and Antarctic.

Developed in the context of the Monaco Polar Symposium, organised by the Foundation’s Polar Initiative, this series brings together voices from science, policy, finance and the field to shed light on why polar regions matter far beyond the poles.

He highlights the need to move towards more systemic and programmatic approaches, bringing together public finance, the private sector and philanthropy to respond to the scale of polar change.

He also discusses how blended finance and innovative funding mechanisms can help accelerate action, strengthen convergence between sectors, and translate knowledge of polar impacts into concrete, investable solutions.

Protecting the polar regions will require more than additional funding: it calls for smarter, more collaborative and more innovative ways to finance action.

This is an area in which the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation is actively engaged, including through the Polar Donors Roundtable and the Cryosphere Finance Dialogue.

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