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Sustainable finance and climate risk: our expertise in turning them into a growth opportunity for banks
Five practice areas delivered by a practitioner who has structured, monitored, and implemented transactions and large consulting programs.
Green and climate finance
We help banks build green portfolios that meet DFIs, taxonomy and market expectations.
What we do
- Green finance framework design: eligibility criteria, mapping to the EU Taxonomy, national taxonomies and the joint Multilateral development banks climate-finance methodology, and Paris-alignment screening
- Green and sustainable loan product development: energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, green SME and retail loans, sustainability-linked loans and transition finance products
- DFI credit lines and guarantees: eligibility, operations manuals, sub-project verification, pipeline development and reporting
- Green, social and sustainability bonds: frameworks aligned with the ICMA Principles, allocation and impact reporting
Typical deliverables: Green finance framework, product sheets and credit procedures, eligibility checklists, operations manual, sales toolkit.
Climate risk and transition planning
We help banks identify, manage and monitor climate-related risks, and turn transition planning into a credible strategy.
What we do
- Climate governance and strategy: board oversight, roles and responsibilities, risk appetite and policy
- Identifying, managing and monitoring climate-related risks: physical and transition risk heatmaps, client-level assessment, integration in credit processes
- Scenario analysis and stress testing using NGFS scenarios, with sector and collateral overlays
- Metrics and targets: financed emissions (PCAF), portfolio alignment and decarbonisation pathways
- Climate transition planning and strategies drawing on IFRS S2 and Transition Plan Taskforce guidance
- Supervisory alignment and disclosure: central bank directives, TCFD and ISSB (IFRS S1 and S2)
Typical deliverables: Climate-risk strategy and policy, risk taxonomy and heatmaps, assessment questionnaires, scenario results, transition plan, disclosure drafts.
Inclusive and gender finance
We help banks reach underserved MSMEs, women and young entrepreneurs profitably.
What we do
- MSME and value-chain finance: product design, cash-flow based lending, supply-chain finance
- Women and youth finance: Women in Business credit lines, gender-disaggregated KPIs, 2X Challenge criteria
- Microfinance and financial inclusion strategies and sector assessments
- capacity building focussed on access to finance for women entrepreneurs and young people, including water, energy and food (WEFE) nexus models
Typical deliverables: Market and sector assessments, product designs, social-inclusion eligibility criteria, training programmes, regional action plans with KPIs.
Biodiversity finance
We bring nature into financial decisions
What we do
- Biodiversity finance: innovative instruments, blended finance, biodiversity and carbon credits, nature-related risk in line with TNFD
- Mainstreaming biodiversity in development-partner interventions and dialogue with MDBs and the private sector
- Environmental and social requirements: EBRD Performance Requirements and IFC Performance Standards
Typical deliverables: Technical papers and briefings, training material.
Sustainable technology investment
We facilitate investment in mitigation and adaptation technologies that can benefit, directly or indirectly, from funding by Development Finance Institutions or support the Nationally Determined Contributions of beneficiary countries.
What we do
- Technology and project screening against DFI eligibility lists and climate-finance criteria
- Economic and financial cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy, energy efficiency, water and climate-smart agriculture investments
- Pipeline origination and matching with DFI credit lines, guarantees and blended-finance incentives
- Monitoring and verification of sub-projects and avoided emissions
Typical deliverables: Investment screening notes, cost-benefit analyses, pipeline databases, monitoring and verification reports.
Who we serve
Commercial banks and central banks
Commercial bank and central banks deploying DFI resources or building sustainable-finance capabilities.
Consulting firms and consortia
Prime contractors seeking key experts, regional knowledge and strong technical proposals for DFI and EU tenders.
DFIs and donor programmes
Funders of the technical assistance and credit lines we help implement: EIB, EBRD, IFC, the EU, KfW, AFD, AfDB, IsDB, ADB, FMO and others.
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Are you a sustainable-finance expert, an ESG expert, or a climate risk expert?
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