A large scale grant fund mechanism for climate adaptation and mitigation projects for smallholder farmers and fishers in African countries, which supports multiple community-managed revolving credit facilities for small-scale producers in land and seascapes
A micro-finance bank/facility to offtake smallholder produce in exchange for enhanced energy access via solar irrigation pumps, with additional financial incentives for tree planting
A fund to accelerate climate adaptation measures for smallholder farmers in the cocoa sector in West Africa, such as shading and crop diversification
A fund to expand access to energy and accelerate economic development in emerging markets by providing low-cost consumer and small business finance solutions for solar home systems and productive use equipment
A hybrid blue carbon and resilience credit, where corporations seeking to offset their carbon footprint can buy credits to fund coastal restoration and conservation projects
A bond mechanism to drive critical investment to climate resilience infrastructure in cities in Latin America, which pools small cities and municipalities to finance climate resilient projects
An initiative to promote climate-smart agriculture and resilient supply chains in West Africa through grants for technical assistance and subsidized rate loans or guarantees for smallholder farmers
An automated weather-indexed crop insurance infrastructure that helps smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa increase resilience to the impacts of climate change, via insurance that is transparent, affordable, and pays out quickly
Solar-asset backed securities to drive needed finance to accelerate Rwanda’s solar sector and make progress towards Rwanda’s goal of 100% energy access by 2024
An enterprise that restores and conserves mangrove habitats in vulnerable coastal areas, funded by cost savings from reduced insurance rate premiums for contracted coastal asset owners
A debt instrument for local governments to finance air pollution reduction projects in emerging market cities
An innovative pay-per-service model to decrease energy consumption and potent greenhouse HFC gas emissions from cooling systems in cities around the world, by increasing competitiveness of state-of-the-art technologies
An electric bus battery financing mechanism to provide long-term debt financing to the electric transit sector in India, and reduce the ownership cost of electric buses to compete with diesel buses
A facility to deploy more electric auto-rickshaws in Indian cities and provide better livelihoods for auto-rickshaw drivers, through a model that provides up to 100% debt financing at competitive rates, and opportunities for driver ownership
A vehicle to accelerate mass adoption of residential rooftop solar to power 200 million households in India, through standardized product offering, easy financing and efficient execution at scale
A vehicle to accelerate investment in clean transit by lowering the upfront cost of electric buses, allowing a utility to capitalize the on-board battery and charging station for bus owners and recover its costs with a predictable monthly charge
A vehicle to increase clean energy access through mini-grids in Sub-Saharan Africa, by addressing demand and revenue risk through a risk pooling guarantee
A mechanism to scale up sustainable forestry in Africa through which investors buy portfolios of trees that have been planted by smallholders on degraded land, and recoup their investment once the trees are harvested and sold
A vehicle to enable distributed solar energy for low-income tenants in Brazil who cannot make the investments or don’t have access to credit, by providing a robust legal and financial structure to make it an attractive and low-risk investment option
A fund to increase forest restoration in the Amazon by investing and providing technical assistance to restore degraded lands in smallholders’ farms with agroforestry systems and, at the same time, developing and facilitating sales of their products
A vehicle to promote the responsible production of commodities, particularly soy, in the Brazilian Cerrado biome, through incentives to plant in already cleared and degraded lands
A solar-specific investment trust to mobilize capital to the rooftop solar sector in India
A class of bonds to drive impact investment to sustainable energy in India by offering debt exposure, sufficient returns, and standardized impact measures
A business model to provide resources and technical assistance to intensify and increase cattle production in Brazil, while also restoring degraded pastures and forests, and decreasing deforestation
A fund that blends commercial and catalytic finance to invest growth equity in companies to accelerate the diffusion of climate intelligence products and resilience building solutions
A mechanism for restoration and conservation of cloud forests in Latin America, which can improve the productivity of hydroelectric plants
An instrument to package and securitize the cashflows of renewable energy projects and sell shares in local capital markets, providing long-term finance for projects in Brazil
An instrument to finance distributed renewable energy systems in agricultural and transport cooperatives, which can help Brazil increase its share of renewables in its power supply and mitigate its carbon emissions
An innovative options mechanism to dramatically reduce risk and drive large amounts of private institutional investment into early-stage renewable energy development in emerging markets
A platform to drive needed private capital to sustainable urbanization projects in India by connecting investors and municipalities with a pipeline of investment opportunities
A new asset facility to back a global fleet of moveable, megawatt-scale solar farms and aims to deploy 10 MW of solar power in the first year
A lease financing model to lower the up-front costs of Proterra’s award winning electric buses, making them price-competitive with fossil fuel-powered buses from day one
An enterprise to use solar off-grid systems for agro-processing in villages, to replace diesel-fueled mills or manual work by women
An online clean energy project financing platform that aims to double the percentage of mid-sized projects that get financed from 5 to 10% by reducing transaction costs and matching projects directly with profiled investors
Insurance to reduce the cost and increase the amount of long-term debt to the utility-scale renewable energy sector by transferring the risk of revenue uncertainty from banks to insurers, through a blending of commercial and donor capital
A facility to drive capital at a lower cost for financing rooftop solar projects in India, by providing long term financing through securitization
A hedging facility to facilitate large-scale foreign investment into renewable energy in India by providing a cheaper currency hedging solution
A peer to peer lending platform to help SMEs operating in renewable energy and energy efficiency in India raise debt finance
The Water Financing Facility mobilizes domestic investment into climate compatible water sector projects through the local bond market.
A platform to bring together the tools, actors, and finance necessary to help lenders incorporate climate risk in their loan portfolios while incentivizing the adoption of climate-smart farming methods by smallholders.
A platform to provide open access to data and open source modeling tools that enable risk assessments as well as the transparent evaluation of economic and financial losses associated with extreme climate-related events.
A private equity fund that relies on donor-backed equity capital, technical assistance, and risk mitigation instruments to crowd in private investment in energy efficiency.
An initiative to standardize the way energy efficiency projects are brought to market, increasing confidence in predicted returns and scaling up investments globally
An initiative to enable better reporting and securitization of PayGo Solar, the leading business model for distributed solar energy systems
An investment platform that aligns the Forest Service and utilities to share the costs and benefits of better forest management
An industry collaboration to drive scale in maritime shipping efficiency retrofit markets
An initiative to deliver strong returns to investors while catalyzing significant new demand to drive green homes market growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
An instrument to increase investment in small-scale renewables by increasing access to long-term debt and construction finance through a discounting facility” and a mezzanine facility
A revolving working-capital fund to develop bankable renewable energy and energy efficiency projects combined with early-stage venture capital
An instrument to insure the financial performance of energy efficiency savings projects in Mexico and other countries
An instrument to provide tools to address currency and interest rate risk for climate relevant projects in developing countries
A facility to provide farmers with know-how and finance for climate-resilient investments, by enabling development banks to partner with agribusiness corporations who empower farmers within their supply chains
A platform to facilitate institutional investment in renewable energy projects, aiming to increase the scale of available financing and to reduce its costs
A financing facility for early-stage development, construction financing, and refinancing to fast-track renewable energy projects in developing countries
A fund to lend to energy service providers of prepaid solar home system products and services, providing the necessary working capital to expand energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa
An innovative renewable energy service company, building and operating a diversified portfolio of hybrid energy plants in remote areas in developing countries