In this lecture
- Map the main sources of finance
- Distinguish grant, concessional and commercial
- Match a source to a project type
Every source has an objective
A climate fund is not a bank and does not want what a bank wants. Reading the objective a source is accountable for - emissions avoided, adaptation benefit, private capital mobilised - tells you which parts of a project to lead with, and which will simply be tolerated.
Grant, concessional, commercial: pick correctly
A grant-appropriate project pitched to a commercial lender reads as unbankable; a revenue-generating project pitched only for grant funding wastes the strongest thing it has. Matching the finance type to the project's actual cash flow is decided before the proposal is drafted, not during review.
Materials
Yours to keep, and usable away from the platform.
- Sources of climate finance - mapPDF · 1.2 MB
Design prototype - the attachments are placeholders and nothing downloads yet.
Lecture quiz
4 questions, plus 2 written questions at the end - taken whenever you are ready. This is what unlocks the next lecture.