Shovel-ready Climate Finance Projects
The Lab develops climate adaptation and mitigation projects that are scalable, catalytic and are primed to make measurable impact in resilience, sustainability, carbon emission reductions and economic growth.
Knowing that investors need to make every dollar count in these urgent times, we have compiled a list of Lab-endorsed instruments and projects that are “shovel ready,” able to leverage immediate funds into action.
While the full suite of Lab instruments support this aim, acknowledging the urgency at-hand, we have compiled a list of Lab-endorsed instruments and projects that are “shovel ready,” able to leverage funds into immediate action on the ground for driving resilient growth in developing countries.
For additional information about the following opportunities, investors may contact our Manager of Climate Finance Leigh Madeira, who supports Lab instruments’ transition from investment concept to market reality.
Climate Investor One
A financing facility for early-stage development, construction financing, and refinancing to fast-track renewable energy projects in developing countries
Cooling as a Service (CaaS)
CaaS is a pay-per-service model for clean cooling systems that eliminates upfront investment in clean cooling technology and has built-in incentives for efficient consumption
CRAFT
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
Energy Efficiency Enabling Initiative
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
Energy Savings Insurance
An instrument to insure the financial performance of energy efficiency savings projects in Mexico and other countries
Green FIDC
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
Low Carbon Auto Rickshaws
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
PopLuz
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
Smallholder Forestry Vehicle
Sustainable Energy Bonds
TCX
An instrument to provide tools to address currency and interest rate risk for climate relevant projects in developing countries
You can read more about the role of climate finance in supporting green recovery actions on CPI’s blog.