Climate change is the “crisis multiplier”. Climate impacts are escalating, exacerbating stresses on food, water, and land. The poorest and most vulnerable countries and communities who are least responsible for the causes of climate change are suffering most. The science tells us that we are on course to breach multiple critical tipping points that will cause irreversible damage to the human and natural world. We need a new approach.

Quadrature Climate Foundation was established in 2019 by the founders of Quadrature Capital, a market neutral investment fund that uses algorithms to predict and trade global financial markets. Initially, the founders were passionate about supporting causes that addressed poverty, inequality, and suffering. In 2018, they came to understand the way the climate crisis superimposed onto these challenges, eroding efforts to fight famine, support refugees, and manage natural disasters. This perspective led them to focus the foundation on the climate crisis, as the most urgent challenge of our time.

Their mission is to unlock the critical solutions needed to avert and manage the worst climate impacts especially for the most vulnerable people and ecosystems. We take a science-based approach to investing across the full suite of climate solutions – reducing greenhouse gas emissions, finding and scaling ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and managing current and inevitable climate change impacts. We focus on pragmatism without losing sight of ambition – a just climate transition requires a “big tent” approach that finds and champions leaders, and also brings others along.