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Existing and Potential Sustainable Blue Economy Investors in the CLME+ Project Area
Tier 1 Prospect
(Strong alignment between CLME+ objectives and a) current focal sectors of an entity or institution; as well as b) geographic scope of operations, i.e. emphasis on LAR and/or the Caribbean. Compelling volume of capital to invest.)
Tier 2 Prospect
(Strong potential candidate for investment in the CLME+ region, due to alignment with either a) thematic or b) geographic focus of the entity or institution).
Tier 3 Prospect
(Notional/weaker alignment between CLME+ objectives and focal areas & geographies and those of the entity/institution) ”
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Natural Capital Finance Alliance
Description of entity:
An initiative whose goal is to enable banks, investors and insurers to make better decisions by assessing their impacts and dependencies on nature
Relevant funding priorities: n/a
Rationale for categorization: Targets the finance and insurance sector. This initiative is designed to improve how these sectors think about natural capital, not to mobilize direct investments into the space.
Scale of activities investment: n/a
Other previous investments: n/a
Sector: Finance, Insurance
Instrument used: n/a
Geographic Focus: Global
Other information: Not specified
Naturevest TNC
Description of entity:
NatureVest is The Nature Conservancy’s conservation investing unit. To incentivize marine and coastal conservation, NatureVest is working with governments and creditors to structure debt restructuring in exchange for governmental commitments to expand their marine managed areas. Debt restructuring, attractive for financial reasons, also allows for more investment in marine conservation and climate adaptation, benefitting coastal communities. NatureVest aims to use private investment capital to purchase debt at a discount in an effort to free up capital to fund conservation efforts in perpetuity.
Relevant funding priorities: forest & carbon, ocean protection, sustainable ag & water, green infrastructure for cities
Rationale for categorization: Caribbean SIDS form an important part of the TNC strategy to broker debt conversion transactions globally (becaues of their high levels of debt, as well as the extent of their natural captial resources).
Scale of activities investment: Unknown.
Other previous investments: Seychelles Debt Conversion. The first ever climate adaptation debt restructuring that also includes a strong marine conservation component was finalized between the Government of Seychelles and its Paris Club creditors. The agreement introduces impact investing to debt restructuring and provides proof of concept for other Small Islands Developing States to replicate.
Sector: Multiple blue economy sectors.
Instrument used: Debt
Geographic Focus: Global
Other information: nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/finance-investing/naturevest/
Oak Foundation
Description of entity:
Oak is a family-led Foundation which commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Resources for the Foundation originated from an interest in Duty Free Shopping business, built by Alan Parker.
In 2019 the Oak Foundation was one of the founding parties to launch the Climate Leadership Initiative to rapidly and exponentially increase climate philanthropy by making it easier for new donors to tap into a network of peers, experts and high-impact solutions.
Website: https://oakfnd.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Since it’s establishment in 1983, the Oak Foundation has issued 4650 grants worth > US$294m. In 2019 over $261m in program grants were issued of which the majority, $65.12m were for environment based programs.
– Over the last 10 years the Oak Foundation has spent over $19m US on projects focused on coral Reef ecosystems (see https://www.coralfunders.com/)
– Since 2017 the Oak Foundation has contributed to over 60 projects internationally focused on Climate resilience, mitigation, awareness and policy.
– Funding from the Oak Foundation in 2011 seeded the Belize Reefs for Life! Project Targeting the formalization of the Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation Initiative – https://reefresilience.org/case-studies/mesoamerican-reef-mpa-design-2/
-Its marine strategy for 2016 to 2020 focuses on three key sectors: industrial fishing, small-scale fisheries and plastics pollution.
Our strategy builds on past successes and sets in motion cutting-edge initiatives that: promote sustainable development; contribute to the integrity of marine ecosystems; and enhance the wellbeing of coastal and indigenous communities.
marine conservation sub-programme has three focus areas:
• Small scale fisheries
• Plastic waste
• Industrial fisheries
Rationale for categorization: Strong thematic but weak geographic alignment with CLME+ objectives.
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: Reef related grants have focused on Belize,Guatemala,Honduras,Mexico and the US.
Climate change grants focus on Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Southeast Asia and the United States.
Sector: Fisheries, Plastic Pollution
Instrument used: The size of grant awards vary from approximately USD 25,000 to USD 7 million, with an average award of USD 600,000 (in recent times however, the trend has been for the Foundation to increase the duration and size of grants awarded). The majority of awards are multi-year in duration.
Geographic Focus: Europe, the Arctic, East Asia and Africa.
Contact: Grants are considered by invitation only, however they encourage organisations to submit unsolicited letters of enquiry if an organisation believes it has a strong alignment with the Foundation’s funding priorities. Funding decisions are made by the Board of Trustees: the approval process can take from two months to > a year and generally, the Foundation funds no more than 50 per cent of any project budget or 20 per cent of organisational budgets. Requests to fund higher levels can however be discussed with the programme officer.
Other information: Not specified
Ocean 14 Capital
Description of entity:
Private equity firm focusing on blue economy investments
Website: https://www.ocean14capital.com/
Relevant funding priorities: Not specified
Rationale for categorization: Strong thematic alignment. Geographic interest / links to demand are uncertain.
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Oceans
Instrument used: Equity
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Description of entity:
The ORRAA was established in response to a greater need for the insurance sector to work with financial institutions, governments, NGOs and others to reduce exposure and vulnerability in coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Established in the margins of 2018’s Ocean Risk Summit, its mission is to build resilience in the regions and communities most vulnerable to ocean risk, by pioneering finance and insurance products. ORRAA recently launched an Innovation Challenge to identify and nurture a pipeline of six to ten novel, viable and fundable finance and insurance projects to build coastal resilience. Open to individuals or consortiums of organizations across public, private, local civil society, international NGOs and academia, the challenge is based on a proven method of nurturing innovative ideas to scale that has supported over USD 35 million of investments by the Global Resilience Partnership.
Website: https://www.oceanriskalliance.org
Relevant funding priorities: ORRAA is working to drive investment into coastal natural capital through innovative financial products that incentivise blended and private financing. Its aim is to drive USD 500 million of investment into nature-based solutions by 2030, and surface at least 15 novel finance products by 2025 that incentivise private and blended finance into coastal natural capital.
Rationale for categorization: Though not a traditional investor, per se, the relevance of the subject matter and emphasis on SIDS, as well as the avaiability of funding to support new risk management products may warrant conversation about potential collaboration.
Scale of activities investment: Start up.
Other previous investments: Unknown.
Sector: Insurance
Instrument used: Unknown.
Geographic Focus: Global
Other information: Not specified
Ocean Unite / Ocean Unite
Description of entity:
Ocean Unite brings together a diverse group of conservationists, business leaders, philanthropies, and influential individuals to catalyse ocean regeneration by engaging and activating audiences around the world on the importance of the ocean, as well as innovating change and accelerating investment in building ocean health and resilience.
Relevant funding priorities: Ocean Protection; Access to Clean Energy; Climate Change; Empowering Entrepreneurs; Renewable energy and resource efficiency in US & Europe (Virgin Green Fund), removal of GHG from earth’s atmosphere (Virgin Earth Challenge-$25M prize for commercially viable design), water, wildlife conservation
Rationale for categorization: History of support for Caribbean focused initiatives (e.g. Climate Smart Accelerator, Caribbean Challenge Initiative).
Scale of activities investment: Unknown.
Other previous investments: Ocean Unite Network, a group of 40 political and business leaders, and social media influencers determined to secure a healthy and vital ocean for the future. Ocean Unite’s #Love30x30 vision – a call to action to safeguard at least 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030 through a network of highly protected marine areas and helped protect over 5 million km2 of ocean. As part of the #Love30x30 vision, Ocean Unite works in targeted areas around the world to help drive the designation of marine protected areas, most importantly in the waters around Antarctica and the Caribbean. Ocean Unite also helps drive support for a new international agreement to protect marine life in the High Seas.
Sector: Multiple blue economy sectors.
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Global. Caribbean is a focal area.
Other information: virgin.com/unite/
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Description of entity:
Launched in 1988 by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and his sister Jody Allen, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is dedicated to changing the trajectory of some of the world’s toughest problems as well as strengthening communities through catalytic philanthropy.
It is a supporter of the Earthshot prize, one focus area of which is reviving Oceans. https://earthshotprize.org/the-earthshots/oceans/.
Website: https://pgafamilyfoundation.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Sharks and rays; coral reefs
Rationale for categorization: Not specified
Scale of activities investment: Unknown
Other previous investments: Unknown
Sector: Not specified
Instrument used: Unknown
Geographic Focus: Global.
Contact: As funding vision and priorities are carefully curated, the Foundation do not accept unsolicited proposals. It is unclear how to get on the Foundation’s radar.
Other information: Not specified
Pegasus Equity Partners
Description of entity:
Pegasus is a private, alternative asset management firm providing strategic growth capital to middle-market companies focused on sustainability and wellness sectors
Website: https://www.pcalp.com/
Relevant funding priorities: Midsize Infrastructure Equity Fund in partnership with IUCN / GCF — 150$M in equity for a $750M project. IUCN to provide $18M in technical assistance to help private sector. The Fund will invest in a global portfolio of mid-sized infrastructure projects in the fields of sustainable energy, waste and sanitation, and nature-based solutions in developing countries. Complementing the fund is a grant-funded dedicated technical assistance facility managed by IUCN with a target size of USD 28 million, of which USD 18.5 million have already been committed by the GCF. Through this facility, IUCN will provide technical assistance in identifying suitable projects for the fund to invest in, and train implementers to ensure that projects are feasible and deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to financial performance. Key indicators will be developed in order to measure and monitor the projects’ contribution to Sustainable Development Goals and Nature-based Solutions. The initiative will also feature third-party certification to verify social and environmental impacts.
Rationale for categorization: Compelling volume of capital to invest, thematic alignment in the energy, waste sectors. No explicit reference to the Caribbean or LAC, however bears further investigation due to overlapping thematic interests esp re: energy, nature-based solutions, and waste management. May align with demand in bigger CLME+ economies.
Scale of activities investment: Midsize
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Energy, Nature-based Solutions, waste management
Instrument used: Equity
Geographic Focus: world
Other information: Not specified
Performa Investimentos**
Description of entity:
One of the first ESG funds in Brazil.
Relevant funding priorities: n.a.
Rationale for categorization: No evidence of specific investments in SDG14/sustainable blue economy, however, however as one of only a few Brazil-based ESG-focused fund managers our review uncovered, we thought it worthy of inclusion.
Scale of activities investment: Middle market
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Equity
Geographic Focus: Brazil
Other information: Not specified
Pew Charitable Trust
Description of entity:
The Pew Charitable Trusts use evidence-based, nonpartisan analysis to solve today’s challenges. The mission of the Trusts is to: improve public policy by conducting rigorous analysis, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause and insisting on tangible results; inform the public by providing useful data that illuminate the issues and trends shaping our world; and invigorate civic life by encouraging democratic participation and strong communities.
Website: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en
Relevant funding priorities: In addition to a strong focus on research, Pew funds marine fellowships, and projects to address fisheries management, ocean conservation, pollution and the protection of coastal wetlands and coral reefs. The majority of projects relating to coral reefs and climate change focus on research and monitoring (scientific and public opinion), protection and policy. Examples include:
– The Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project – New Caledonia, (Funding unknown). This project is driving the protection of 5 of New Caledonia’s most intact and remote reefs, fully protected within an MPA.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2020/02/preserving-new-caledonias-marine-environment
– Protecting coastal wetlands and coral reefs (Funding unknown). This project build partnerships with countries to help them integrate coastal wetlands and coral reefs into their Paris commitments for coastal protection, carbon sequestration and to reduce the rate of coastal habitat loss.https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/protecting-coastal-wetlands-and-coral-reefs
Rationale for categorization: Strong thematic alignment but uncertain alignment with CLME+ focal geographies.
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: Global
Sector: Coral Reefs, coastal wetlands.
Instrument used: Unknown
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
