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Home | The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Unlocking billions for climate investments in emerging markets The Lab's portfolio hits USD 5 billion The Lab is an investor-led, public-private initiative that incubates innovative well designed, early-stage climate finance solutions and instruments. The Lab publicizes an open call for innovative sustainable investment solutions.
Lab Members select the most promising ideas to take forward in each annual cycle. Selected ideas benefit from 7 months of analysis, stress-testing, and guidance from experts and investors. Lab Members vote to endorse and launch the ideas for piloting.
The ideas move into action and fundraising to launch pilots, with continued support from the Lab network. Lab Members are leaders from public and private organizations who contribute expertise, political support, and financial capital to Lab solutions. The Lab develops innovative, catalytic ideas for financial solutions that can drive climate-related investments in emerging economies.
launched to tackle barriers in the most critical sectors and regions mobilized for climate action in emerging economies invested by the Lab Network invested by private investors Sustainable Agriculture Finance Facility Smallholder Forestry Vehicle Distributed Energy Generation for Cooperatives (DGC) Climate Insurance-Linked Resilient Infrastructure Financing (CILRIF) Resilient Municipal Market Fund (ReMark) The Breathe Better Bond Initiative SunSHIFT Global Fleet of Modular Moveable Megawatt Scale Solar Assets Blockchain Climate Risk Crop Insurance PopLuz | Distributed Energy for Social Housing P-REC Aggregation Facility The Lab completely accelerated our growth.
We came from having a pilot on 5-6 green businesses to building a fully-fledged business banking facility of USD 7M within 10 months of support. The team of analysts from the Lab is highly dedicated and passionate, with strong expertise in the carbon space. With a hands-on approach, the Lab’s team worked shoulder-to-shoulder with ours to test assumptions, improve models, and strengthen our impact strategy.
They also leveraged their network to assess market fit and went out of their way to support our fundraising efforts. It was a turning point for us. The collaborative spirit among Lab members is a powerful force for addressing climate challenges.
We need bold ideas to come forward and strong support for the teams driving them. As a Lab member, Finance in Common is proud to help develop these outstanding teams and initiatives. It’s great to be part of this network that has paved the ground for many innovative investments that are now part of NDF’s portfolio.
The Lab is a prime example of an initiative in which highly professional institutions gather to collectively apply their knowledge to initiatives with strong potential and that provide a link to possible financing. ” Deputy Managing Director, Head of Business Development and Outreach The climate finance innovation the Lab provides is essential because you cannot address the climate crisis unless you use every tool at your disposal.
When it comes to these tools, we need to empower countries like Rwanda so they can be players and managers in the carbon market, not just providers of credits. ” Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya Minister of the Environment Rwanda Ministry of Environment Being able to build momentum, seek advice and have the support of the Lab was a really exciting opportunity.
This has been such a helpful program, and we are excited to be taking things forward with The Fund for Nature. As Lab alumni, we are excited to continue engaging with and contributing to the community. ” Germany has been supporting the Lab since its beginning, and we have witnessed an impressive growing complexity of the projects the Lab moves forward.
It reinforces the truly innovative nature of the Lab as it embraces the most difficult sectors where barriers for private finance are higher. ” Deputy Director General for International Climate Action German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety The Lab is unique in joining public and private investors with entrepreneurs advancing innovative projects in climate finance.
FinDev Canada is proud to fund the Lab’s gender equality stream, as this long-standing initiative aligns with one of our key impact goals of promoting climate action. ” Joining the Lab Network provides us a valuable opportunity to connect with a global network of like-minded individuals and organizations, opening the door for potential collaboration and partnerships.
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25M to support the launch of innovative climate finance instruments Lab awards USD 1. 25M to accelerate five climate finance instruments globally.... Lab’s 2026 Call for Ideas breaks record with over 1,000 applications received The Lab has now reviewed more than 3,000 applications since launching its first cycle in 2015.
... Learn how the Lab’s investor-led model transforms early-stage ideas intoinvestment-ready vehicles.... Tracking Capital Mobilized by Innovative Climate Finance Vehicles This methodology brief outlines the comprehensive approach CPI has established for tracking capital ...
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Pre-seed tech startups building climate resilience solutions in Africa, across verticals like fintech for climate resilience, sustainable livelihoods, and climate-smart essential services. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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Catalyst Fund (The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance) is funded by The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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