![]() ![]() Industry estimates suggest that about 75% of climate funding will flow from the private sector. Governments and regulators: Leading from the front ![]() So far this year, 70% of loan instruments originate from Asia-Pacific and Europe combined. 17 Meanwhile, green loans, typically smaller in size than green bonds and arranged privately, constituted just 2% (~US$10.4 billion) of the market in 2022. Around US$2.3 trillion have been issued in green bonds so far in 2023, with US$487 billion raised in 2022. One signal of the coming growth of greener finance is that demand for green bonds far exceeds supply. The GFANZ is trying to accelerate country-specific climate finance flows and build a bankable pipeline of projects in countries such as Colombia and India. Moreover, large global FSIs are increasingly joining coalitions such as the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), committing to align lending and investment portfolios and ramp up green capital. ![]() Standard Chartered Bank, Société Générale, DWS, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group are some of the active private investors in blended finance. 14īlended finance, where philanthropy and/or development finance are used to mobilize private capital, can help hard-to-fund projects, especially in developing countries. 13 BNP Paribas’s Solar Impulse Venture Fund aims to invest 150 million euros in American and European cleantech start-ups. 12 Just Climate recently raised US$1.5 billion from institutional investors, exceeding its target by US$500 million. For instance, Breakthrough Energy Ventures has invested almost US$2.5 billion across three funds. Some investors have shown their willingness to back climate early tech. FSIs can support early-tech start-ups directly through equity investments or by insuring them. That said, while the bulk of overall climate funding is likely needed for scale-up and deployment, much remains to be done to fund climate technologies that are not yet commercially deployed. While FSIs are adept at this, there may still be significant potential to develop new, innovative financing instruments such as green deposits and emission reduction–linked bonds to fund these types of transformations, possibly affording them new business opportunities. They should continue to provide support by helping create a market for climate-related instruments and facilitating project finance and term loans for projects that deploy climate tech. 11 FSIs are taking steps to help fund next generation climate technologiesįSIs have a broad and pivotal role to play. This prediction addresses the current state of climate funding, and the measures financial services institutions (FSIs) could take to help bridge the US$2 trillion private funding gap for climate technologies in stages before deployment. Who moves first: the consumer or the producer? Some organizations aim to solve for this exact dilemma by “using their purchasing power to create early markets for innovative clean technologies.” 10 Then, there is the difficulty of working out when and how to make a systemic shift-the “chicken and egg” dilemma. 7 As Bill Gates points out, “In many cases, clean alternatives appear more expensive because fossil fuels are artificially cheap.” 8 For example, green hydrogen, which is derived from water, costs around three times its much more pollutant “gray” counterpart, which is produced from fossil fuels. Consumers are often unwilling to pay the “green premium”-that is, the additional cost for less-polluting energy sources. But what can deter investment is the lack of a viable business model, given that carbon’s polluting effects may not be fully priced in. ![]()
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