Relevant funding priorities: Renewable energy

Relevant funding priorities: Throughout LAC, AID focuses its effort on: Encouraging job creation, strengthening small- and medium-sized businesses, and promoting agricultural advances as well as helping countries to protect natural resources and adapt to changing climate patterns. USAID’s Caribbean Energy Initiative (CEI) focuses on building energy sector resilience across the region, in recognition of the critical role that a steady, reliable energy supply plays in the daily economy of the region and in post-disaster recovery. Funded with an initial investment of $5 million, this planned five-year initiative is part of the U.S. government’s increasing engagement in the region within the framework of the U.S. Strategy for Engagement in the Caribbean (also known as Caribbean 2020), which identifies the Department of State and USAID’s security, diplomacy, prosperity, energy, education, and health priorities for the region.

Relevant funding priorities: climate change & the environment, sustainable agriculture & food systems

Relevant funding priorities: Phase 2 priorities: 1. Promote adoption of high-impact, science-based fisheries and marine protection policies in at least 10 countries. 2. Protect at least 50 reef geographies that are projected to be less vulnerable to long-term climate impacts and can repopulate other reefs over time. 3. Support at least 20 countries to achieve fishing activity transparency in their national waters.

Relevant funding priorities: Reefs, Sharks and Rays, Unsustainable fishing

Relevant funding priorities: MSP, sustainable fisheries, blue economy

Relevant funding priorities: Protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support is one of the foundations three top programmatic areas. Within this focal area, prioritei include ocean health, food security, sustainable aquaculture

Relevant funding priorities: They manage the WHEB Sustainability Fund which focuses on the opportunities created by the transition to healthy, low carbon and sustainable economies. The investment team selects high-quality companies from nine broad themes with strong growth characteristics to create a globally diversified portfolio. We develop long-term relationships with company managements to promote the best environmental, social and economic outcomes.

Relevant funding priorities: In 2019 the World Bank issued more than $62.3b in loans, grants, equity investments, and guarantees to partner countries and private businesses. Reflecting the Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, the Bank Group is making adaptation and resilience a key priority, placing it on an equal footing with climate mitigation. In December 2018, the Bank Group announced major new climate targets doubling current five-year investments to around $200 billion from 2021 to 2025. The targets include a doubling of support for adaptation and resilience to address mounting climate impacts on lives and livelihoods, especially in the poorest countries. http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/189851543772751358/Adaptation-and-Resilience-Action-Plan-Key-Messages.pdf ProBLUE. PROBLUE — a multidonor trust fund — was established with a view to transforming the way the World Bank helps its client countries develop their oceanic economic sectors: “sustainably, and in an integrated fashion, in healthy oceans.” PROBLUE is organized around four pillars, focused on: (1) improved fisheries governance; (2) Marine Litter and Pollution Management; (3) blueing oceanic sectors; and (4) integrated seascape management.The program was set up in response to demand from client countries, and this demand continues to grow, both in terms of support for work in individual sectors—ranging from the challenges presented by marine pollution and plastics to issues specific to fisheries and coastal management— and with increasing requests for more integration between these sectors. In the Caribbean, the Unleashing the Blue Economy in the Eastern Caribbean (UBEEC) project is an investment under development in four Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries: Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. We have funded multisector activities focused on transforming tourism, restoring fisheries, and preventing plastic debris. In addition, we are providing support to help increase port resilience and reduce pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from maritime transport by making a plan for blue ports in five Caribbean countries: Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Finally, PROBLUE has supported the Caribbean region in spearheading the first-ever climate-risk parametric insurance developed for fisheries—a catalytic tool for promoting resilience in the fisheries sector and its contributions to a stronger blue economy.

Relevant funding priorities: WWF and Wilderness Markets are exploring the feasibility of a blended public and private finance facility, with an initial target o supporting Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs)which take a step-by-step approach toward the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard, which is based on the core principles of sustainable fish stocks, the minimization of environmental impacts, and effective fishery management. Lack of significant, long-term private sector finance for fisheries in transition is a key barrier to scaling up FIPs.