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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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Althelia (Sustainable Ocean Fund)
Description of entity:
The $132 million Sustainable Ocean Fund provides growth capital to companies in the sustainable seafood, circular economy and conservation focused sectors The fund has a blended structure, with a $50 million Development Credit Authority facility with USAID. Investors include: the European Investment Bank, Axa Investment Managers, IADB, FMO, and Caprock Group. The geographical focus of the fund will be 30% in Asia and Pacific, 40% Latin America and the Caribbean, and 30% Africa. Althelia has also partnered with Conservation International and the Environmental Defense Fund for scientific and technical expertise.
Relevant funding priorities: Not specified
Rationale for categorization: Large fund dedicated to investing in companies working in sustainable seafood, ocean conservation, and circular economy.
Scale of activities investment: 132000000. Provides growth capital to companies that harness the ocean’s natural capital in the areas of seafood, circular economy, and ocean consrvation
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Seafood, circular economy, ocean conservation
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: L.Am/Carib (40%), Asia/Pacific, Africa
Other information: https://althelia.com/sustainable-ocean-fund/
Althelia Ecosphere / Mirova-Althelia (Investment Fund Manager)
Description of entity:
OCEAN: Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF) for established businesses & Series A. 3 investment areas: Sustainable seafood; cicular economy/coastal infrastructure focused on plastics and wastewater mgt; Ocean conservation (coastal protection to improve biodiversity & resilience. Focused on emerging markets and small island states. The managers have positively screened US$50m of deals and commenced initial due diligence 5 lead projects. Based on a fund raise of US$100m the SOF will structure and invest in between 15 and 20 sustainable marine projects with tenors up to eight years. FOREST: Althelia Climate Fund – projects that reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity and provide a fair and sustainable living to rural communities. Portfolio (Ecosphere+ has the largest forest carbon projects in the world): Sumatra Merang Peatland Project, Guatemalan Caribbean Forest Corridor, Taita Hills Conservation and Sustainable Land Use Project in south eastern Kenya, etc.
Website: Althelia.com
Relevant funding priorities: sustainable seafood; circular economy; ocean conservation; projects that reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity and provide a fair and sustainable living
Rationale for categorization: The Sustainable Ocean Fund is a promising Fund seeking to invest in businesses across a variety of ocean-focused sectors.
Scale of activities investment: Growth
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Multiple blue economy sectors.
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
Aqua Spark
Description of entity:
Specialist sustainable aquaculture investment fund; estd 2013. Aqua-Spark is an open ended fund specialised in making equity investments in sustainable and innovative aquaculture companies across the globe.
Relevant funding priorities: Aqua-Spark makes sound, well-informed investments in sustainable SMEs along the aquaculture supply chain. The fund prefers to be a minority stakeholder (20-49 percent), with no position size ever exceeding 20 percent of capital committed to the fund.
Rationale for categorization: No known geographic overlap, howeverAquaSpark is a a large, established fund operating in the aquaculture spac targeting SMEs and therefore deserves further examination as a possible investor in region.
Scale of activities investment: >100,000,000
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Aquaculture investment funds
Instrument used: Equity
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
Bamboo Capital Partners
Description of entity:
impact investment fund which aims to accelerate progress towards the SDGs
Website: http://www.bamboocp.com/
Relevant funding priorities: The OGEF Fund invests in companies that provide renewable, off-grid energy access solutions in Haiti, with the objective to electrify 200,000 households in Haiti within the next 10 years.
Rationale for categorization: Focus on the SDGs generally rather than a specific focus on SDG 14/marine and coastal themes. No specific focus in LAC.
Scale of activities investment: 500000000; Seed, growth
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Full range of equity, debt approaches
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
Barbados & OECS Blue Economy Accelerator Lab
Description of entity:
The primary objective of the BlueLab is to promote out-of-the box thinking and experimentation to support Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with a focus on Caribbean countries, in the sustainable development of its ocean-based economic sectors. The Lab is looking to accelerate innovative initiatives that are already happening in order to have a greater impact on the problems being addressed. These accelerations may take the form of further capital investment, technical assistance, partnership generation or any area that ‘lead users’ may need support in to get their ventures to the next stage.
Relevant funding priorities: Not specified
Rationale for categorization: Strong thematic and geographic alignment.
Scale of activities investment: Unknown.
Other previous investments: Unknown
Sector: Energy, Tourism, waste management
Instrument used: Unknown.
Geographic Focus: OECS, Barbados
Other information: Not specified
Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
Description of entity:
BIO invests directly and indirectly in SMEs in emerging and developing countries and structurally contributes to their socio-economic growth. BIO invests in Least Developed Countries, Low Income Countries, and Lower-middle Income Countries (i.e. the OECD’s DAC-list). BIO can also invest in upper middle-income countries and pays particular attention to the partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation and to less developed countries.
Website: https://www.bio-invest.be/
Relevant funding priorities: On 10th March 2020, the first closing of the SDG Frontier Fund took place at €25.3M thanks to the participation of nine Belgian private and institutional investors together with BIO. The SDG Frontier Fund is currently still looking for investors to reach the target size of €50M.
Rationale for categorization: Llimited engagement with the Blue Economy in the CLME+ focal countries of the insular Caribbean, however, considerable interest in Central America, the DR, and Latin American participating countries. Also, launch of SDG Frontier Fund may provide an opening for some interesting conversations.
Scale of activities investment: Varied.
Other previous investments: SDG Frontier Fund
EcoEnterprises III, EUR 6.2M (see above) in equity fund. The investee companies are active in sustainable sectors such as sustainable agriculture, aquaculture and agroforestry, certified forestry, ecotourism and other emerging opportunities, with a focus on family- and community-based businesses, aiming at a positive environmental and social impact on local communities and ecosystems.
Montecristi Solar (DR). EUR14.2M debt investment in 8MWp photovoltaic solar plant in Monte Cristi in the Dominican Republic
Sector: Energy
Instrument used: debt, equity
Geographic Focus: Brazil, Colombia, DR
Other information: Not specified
Bertarelli Foundation
Description of entity:
The Foundation works with governmental bodies, NGOs and local communities to create some of the world’s largest marine reserves, in some of the most threatened and ecologically significant parts of the ocean.
Relevant funding priorities: Not specified
Rationale for categorization: Geographic overlap is minimal (only Belize)
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: MPAs, Marine Science
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Belize. Others include: Pitcairn, Easter Islands, Sandwich Islands, Ascension Islands, others
Other information: Not specified
Blue Action Fund
Description of entity:
With resources provided by the governments of Germany, Sweden and France, Blue Action provides individual grants to NGOs to support conservation projects in marine protected areas (MPAs) and their buffer zones, focusing on the most sensitive coastal waters of Africa, Latin America and Asia/Pacific. Our goal is to contribute to reducing the dramatic loss of marine biodiversity and to advancing local development, for instance through stabilizing incomes in coastal communities or enhancing coastal protection. Interested organisations may submit their proposals in response to public tenders.
Website: https://www.blueactionfund.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Newly established or better managed MPAs of regional importance or networks of MPAs; Conservation of biodiversity and recovery of fish stocks; Enhanced livelihood conditions and food security
Rationale for categorization: Makes grants of considerable scale in focal areas relevant to CLME+ objectives. Geographic focus varies with periodic changes in grantmaking focus.
Scale of activities investment: 1-3M EUR
Other previous investments: “Fishing for a Prosperous Future in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape”, Grant of € 2,750,000. Aim was to put unsustainable and underperforming fisheries in eight of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape’s most iconic and ecologically important Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Multiple Use Marine Areas (MMAs) on a recovery path.
Sector: MPAs
Instrument used: grant.
Geographic Focus: Latin America
Other information: Not specified
Blue Carbon Fund (UK funds, managed by IDB)(Blue Carbon Resilience Credit)
Description of entity:
The GBP12,950,000 Fund promotes the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of mangrove habitats by developing and embedding operational blue carbon markets across the Caribbean and Latin America that provide local communities with a sustainable income and assist in moving low-income countries towards low-emission, climate-resilient development.
Relevant funding priorities: Blue carbon: Mangrove and seagrass protection and restoration.
Rationale for categorization: Strong geographic and thematic alignment.
Scale of activities investment: Unknown.
Other previous investments: Jamaica, Panama (to date). The Jamaica project will restore mangrove ecosystems in southern Clarendon along the south coast of Jamaica, to conditions of viable/healthy and optimally functioning coastal forested ecosystems. The interventions are expected to improve the sequestration capacity of these restored areas to store blue carbon (carbon that is stored in coastal and marine ecosystems), in addition to improving climate change resilience. In Panama, The objective of this project is to elevate the importance of Panama’s coastal Natural Capital (mangrove ecosystems), the carbon they sequester, and the biodiversity they support by shifting perceptions on the value and importance of the natural capital through a multi-pronged approach: 1) Delivering robust science that establishes a blue carbon baseline; 2) Establishing economic valuation of the ecosystem services provided; 3) Building knowledge, awareness and engagement with key stakeholders to drive action that increases protection of coastal wetlands; and 4) Supporting and strengthening policies that will incentivize mangrove conservation and reforestation.
Sector: Resilience/Mitigation
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: LAC
Other information: Not specified
Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital / BlueOrange Capital
Description of entity:
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks to invest in opportunities in a diversified set of emerging market companies that deliver both strong risk adjusted returns and social impact aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Website: https://bluelikeanorangecapital.com/
Relevant funding priorities: Blue like an Orange aims to support the development of sustainable infrastructure by investing in clean and reliable energy, sanitation, and transport
Rationale for categorization: Includeed for explicit interest in investments contributing to SDGs particularly in the clean energy, transport sectors. At present no known investments in target geographies, but may be open to approaches.
Scale of activities investment: Unknown
Other previous investments: Unknown
Sector: Multiple sectors.
Instrument used: Predominantly mezzanine, subordinated debt.
Geographic Focus: Global
Other information: Not specified
