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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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Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Description of entity:
Among other things, the Foundation investes in large scale, high impact environmental initiatives in 4 programmatic areas (the Andes, Marine Conservation, conservation and markets, and wild salmon ecosystems). While the majority of the Foundation’s resources focus on large scale, long term initiatives, a small percentage of the Environmental Conservation Program’s grantmaking for a handful of special one-time opportunities.
Relevant funding priorities: Not specified
Rationale for categorization: Limited potential geographic overlap given current strategic priorities, however, the special projects window may present an opportunity for an approach.
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: Not specified
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Arctic, British Columbia, Western United States
Other information: Not specified
Government of Canada
Description of entity:
The Government of Canada is a major investor in climate-related projects in the region. In 2016, Canada set-up a $5 million Fund to, among other things, improve the region’s potential for clean energy solutions. The Canadian Support for the Energy Sector in the Caribbean Fund is being administered by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). It also supports the Compete Caribbean program administered by IDB. At the global level, Canada has pledged $600 million to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Investors are encouraged to develop and submit concepts and designs to the Global Climate Fund. Canada recently launched a $20 million CARICOM Climate Adaptation Fund and a $7.2 million fund to help local financial institutions design and deploy ‘green finance’ products for MSMEs and low-income households in the Caribbean.
Relevant funding priorities: Clean Energy
Rationale for categorization: Canada invests considerable resources in the region. Its commitment to the Compete Caribbean initiative (focused on developing enterprises in the region) and investment in climate r
Scale of activities investment: Unknown
Other previous investments: The Canadian Support for the Energy Sector in the Caribbean Fund is being administered by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
Sector: Multiple blue economy sectors.
Instrument used: Various.
Geographic Focus: Caribbean
Other information: Not specified
Govt of Seychelles
Description of entity:
See case study for full description.
Relevant funding priorities: 15.000.000
Rationale for categorization: The well-known Seychelles blue bond was a soverign bond. It is included here not as a potential source of finance for the Caribbean, of course, but as an example that could be replicated by Caribbean governments.
Scale of activities investment: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/29/seychelles-launches-worlds-first-sovereign-blue-bond
Other previous investments: n/a
Sector: Multiple blue economy sectors.
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: A financial instrument designed to support sustainable marine and fisheries projects. Backed by WB and GEF.
Other information: Not specified
Grantham Environmental Trust
Description of entity:
The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust was formed in 2005 by Jeremy Grantham, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Strategist of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo (GMO) and his wife Hannelore.
The Trust is a US 501(c)(3) public charity and a Type II 509(a)(2) supporting organization that supports charities whose mission is environmental protection, with particular focus on the developing world.
The Trust’s endowment is approximately $250 million and its trustees are the CEOs of The Nature Conservancy, The World Wildlife Fund-US, Rocky Mountain Institute and Rare, in addition to Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham.
Website: http://www.granthamtrust.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Environmental protection.
Rationale for categorization: Thematic overlap, compelling volume of funds.
Scale of activities investment: $250 million (Endowment Fund)
Other previous investments: $850,000 investment in Ocean Rainfores (Faroe Islands), to accelerate growth of offshore seaweed production for the benefit of people
Sector: Aquaculture, Multiple
Instrument used: Unknown.
Geographic Focus: Developing World
Other information: Not specified
Grantham Foundation
Description of entity:
The Grantham Foundation seeks to raise awareness of urgent environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations working to find solutions. Our grantmaking supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change.
Website: http://www.granthamfoundation.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Environment, generally; emphasis on mitigation and adatpation to climate change.
Rationale for categorization: No evidence of specific funding overlap, however, has invested in innovative ideas in the past (e.g. TNC’s debt conversions initiative) and could be interesting to approach for the right idea.
Scale of activities investment: Unknown
Other previous investments: Support for TNC’s debt conversions initiative.
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Unknown
Geographic Focus: Global
Other information: Not specified
Green Climate Fund
Description of entity:
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries to respond to the challenge of climate change. GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change. The Fund pays particular attention to the needs of societies that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and African States.
“Launched in 2014, the Green Climate Fund received US$10.3 billion in funds, mostly from developed nations. To date GCF has committed $5.3b in financing, increasing the resilience of 351.3m people and avoided 852m tonnes od CO2. 28% of grants are focused on adaptation, with an additional 36 covering both adaptation and mitigation.
– Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (Active; Grant: $36m Co-Funding: $2.9m) https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp015
– Blue Action Fund (BAF): GCF Ecosystem Based Adaptation Programme in the Western Indian Ocean (Active; Grant: $34.1m; Co-Financing $28.4m) https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp122”
Website: https://www.greenclimate.fund/home
Relevant funding priorities: The adaptation result areas for GCF-funded projects are: i) Most vulnerable people and communities, ii) health and well-being, and food and water security, iii) Infrastructure and built environment, and iv) ecosystems and ecosystem services. The results of all GCF-funded adaptation projects must be monitored and reported through these four categories.The GCF recognizes the that there is a strong economic case for investing in EbA and ecosystem-based approaches. Further, there are obvious linkages with other results areas of the Fund. Existing ecosystem-based adaptation is being funded in a small number of cases through existing climate funds. While there are projects that focus on the role of forests in ecosystem services, less attention has been paid to the impact of climate change on coral reefs, the longer term viability of which is likely to be threatened. Such projects may be of particular relevance in SIDS, where threats of climate change to coastal ecosystems are large. Coral reefs and coastal ecosystems protect communities from storms and erosion, reducing damage costs and potentially saving lives. The costs of seawalls or other hard infrastructure may well be more than the cost of protection of the existing reefs that serve similar functions.
Rationale for categorization: Not specified
Scale of activities investment: 13% Micro <$10m
33% Small $10-50m
42% Medium $50-250m
12% Large $250m +
Other previous investments: Western Indian Ocean Initiative with Blue Action Fund. This programme will pool adaptation sub-projects under the Blue Action Fund to improve climate-resilient coastal zone management in this diverse region. The programme will leverage additional co-financing from NGOs, while grant recipients are required to provide 25 percent of the budget of their projects.
Sector: Adaptation, EbA
Instrument used: 50% funds delivered as grants; 40% as loans, 10% as equity, results based payments and guarantees.”
Geographic Focus: Global.
Other information: Not specified
http://blue-finance.org/
Description of entity:
Blue finance’s objective is to improve the management of at least twenty MPAs by 2030. Its approach relies on a co-management leases secured from governments in exchange for an agreement to manage focal PAs against certain metrics over a specified time period. Blue Finance works with communities and local stakeholders to design and implement revenue generation models in order to pay back impact investors who supply capital at the project start.
Website: http://blue-finance.org/
Relevant funding priorities: Marine Protected Areas
Rationale for categorization: High degree of thematic and potential for replication and scaling in Caribbean geographies, where already the program has been launched in the Dominican Republic.
Scale of activities investment: n/a
Other previous investments: Dominican Republic. Blue finance secured debt financing for the initial MPA investment from impact investors blended with philanthropic grants. Blue finance provides long term technical support to a local management company in order to improve both environmental management and entrepreneurial skills. REvenue generation mechanisms deployed locally (e.g. through a prescribed right to collect a fee for entrance) will facilitate repayment of impact investors.
Sector: MPAs
Instrument used: Debt
Geographic Focus: Global. Blue Finance has an number of ongoing dialogues with governments in the Caribbean to deploy the blue finance approach to MPA management.
Other information: Not specified
IC Foundation
Description of entity:
Founded in 2010 as the foundation arm of IC Constructora. Assisting community businesses in all parts of Colombia, urban or rural, in all economic sectors (save for coffee and recycling) in whichever stage of the supply chain.
Website: http://www.icfundacion.org/en/
Relevant funding priorities: The foundation supports organizations in the validation, analysis and structuring of their business projects; securing of credit resources (directly as funders); and as allies in the public and private sector in order to provide the business initiatives that they finance with technical, administrative, commercial and organizational support.
Rationale for categorization: Explicit focus on Colombia, and on community businesses/investments. The Foundation is open to making investments in a variety of sectors provided at a scale that makes sense throughout the region.
Scale of activities investment: Early stage.
Other previous investments: Support for a number of agri-business initiatives.
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Colombia
Other information: http://www.icfundacion.org/en/
IDB “Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility”
Description of entity:
Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility
Launched in 2012, The Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility (CCPF) is a Private Sector Development Program that delivers Innovative and practical solutions that stimulate Economic Growth, increase Productivity and foster Innovation and Competitiveness. We work in 13 countries across the Caribbean region.
CCPF is a partnership between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), and the Government of Canada.
Website: https://www.competecaribbean.org/
Relevant funding priorities: The program has a Blue Economy cluster.
Rationale for categorization: Strong thematic and geographic alignment.
Scale of activities investment: Not specified
Other previous investments: A selection of investments: Strategic Roadmap for the Blue Economy, Barbados (to be completed 9/2021)(300,000)
Improving Sustainable Shrimp Production ($400,000); Belize Seaweed Mariculture Project ($200,000); Innovation & Expansion in the Tourism Sector (with Caribbean Tourism Organization)(Regional); Supporting Comprehensive Renewable Energy (Bahamas)($250,000); Support for Economic Diversification in the Bahamas, includes a blue economy component ($500,000)(Bahamas)
Sector: Multiple
Instrument used: Not specified
Geographic Focus: Not specified
Other information: Not specified
IDB Invest
Description of entity:
IDB Invest, the private sector institution of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to supporting the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. It finances sustainable enterprises and projects to achieve financial results that maximize economic, social and environmental development for the region. IDB Invest works across sectors to provide innovative financial solutions and advisory services for low-carbon and climate resilient investments that meet the evolving demands of its clients. As of November 2017, IDB Invest is the trade name of the Inter-American Investment Corporation.
IDB Invest has a new Environmental and Social Sustainability Policy. It was approved by the Board of Directors on April 10, 2020, and it became effective on December 15, 2020. The purpose of the new Policy is to enhance the environmental and social sustainability of IDB Invest’s financed projects through the application of robust risk management standards.
Website: https://idbinvest.org/en
Relevant funding priorities: IDB works with companies across the tourism and accommodation spectrum with a strong focus on social and environmental sustainability. It finances sustainable hotels and climate change resilient infrastructure.
Rationale for categorization: Strong geographic and thematic alignment.
Scale of activities investment: Various
Other previous investments: DR, Miches: The IIC will support the construction and operation of a 169-room Four Seasons hotel and 24-unit branded residential component (the “Project”) to be known as Tropicalia, located in the municipality of Miches, Dominican Republic, a town of approximately 21,000 inhabitants, mostly unskilled workers and farmers (68.9% of whom live in poverty and 21.0% in extreme poverty).
Bahamas: Arawak Port Exansion & Energy Efficency Project. The proceeds will be to finance the installation of a rooftop solar PV system on APD’s main building at the port, as well as financing other small energy efficiency activities.
Barbados: Barbados Port Inc, $30M investment of regional transit hub with the ambition of becoming the most innovative, green maritime hub in the world by 2030.
Sector: Energy, Tourism, Transport, Water & Sanitation
Instrument used: Loans, other
Geographic Focus: LAC
Other information: Not specified