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Climate aggregation platform formed

By Editor
11 January 2016   |   5:10 am
A NEW multi-million dollar initiative to promote clean energy investment in developing countries was announced today at the COP21 climate talks in Paris. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) will provide $2 million in initial funding to help kick-start the formation of the ‘Climate Aggregation Platform’ (CAP) in 2016.  The CAP is expected to leverage over…
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A NEW multi-million dollar initiative to promote clean energy investment in developing countries was announced today at the COP21 climate talks in Paris.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) will provide $2 million in initial funding to help kick-start the formation of the ‘Climate Aggregation Platform’ (CAP) in 2016.  The CAP is expected to leverage over $100 million in co-financing from different partners, including from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The announcement was made by GEF CEO and Chairperson, Naoko Ishii during Energy Day at COP21.  The CAP aims to help build pipelines of standardised, low-carbon energy assets in developing countries and to develop low-cost sources of financing for these assets, tapping new and diverse investor bases.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), will implement the CAP programme. The IDB will be a core partner in demonstration transactions.

The CAP will be structured around three core activities:  A global working group, to promote engagement and coordination amongst key finance and industry stakeholders; promoting the standardisation essential to aggregation and in-country demonstrations and providing technical support for pilot transactions, to build pipelines and achieve scale.

Aggregation is important to allow developing country financial institutions, from banks to micro- finance lenders, to make the most of their limited balance sheets. The aggregation, or bundling together, of small loans and assets aims to create investment products that meet the large-scale needs of institutional investors including global pension funds and insurance funds.

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