b'it comes to climate change, it turns out, fast money isnt flowingfast enough. While trillions of dollars per year are needed globally to give us a fighting chance of mitigating global warming, investment remains in the hundreds of billions, and, due to interagency and intergovernment politics and budgetary processes, it is difficult to account for and easy to argue over. Most private sector climate investing goes to renewable energy and clean techonly a small fraction goes to agriculture and forestry. Environ-mental funding comprises only a few percent of overall U.S. grant-making, or a few billion dollars per year. 21Meanwhile, annual global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry continue in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Neither the amount of financial flows nor their direction is sufficient to keep temperature increases below 2C, let alone 1.5C, says Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and a former co-chair of the Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change working group. 22Going by the numbers, the abyss between the trillions of dollars needed and the amounts of money that can be mobilized at the grassroots level seems insurmountable and demoralizing. If we are guided by a different compass, however, glimpses of the realm of Nurture Capital are there for us to see, along with the intimation that journeys, moral arcs, imaginative possibilities, tipping points and biophilia are mysterious. 21 When, a few years ago, a coalition of major foundations announced climate change commitments totaling $429 million over four years (2018-2022), it was celebrated as a major step forward for the philanthropy sector. https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/nine-foundations-commit-459-million-to-global-climate-action22 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02712-3113'