GCPF Insights

| Insight

SOLAR FOR BUSINESS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

A new report commissioned by the Global Climate Partnership Fund and its investment manager responsAbility highlights the potential of commercial and industrial (C&I) solar opportunities in the region and the key challenges that must be overcome to fully unlock solar’s potential.

| Insight

SOLARNOW: ENERGIZING AFRICA OFF THE GRID

SolarNow provides its customers with light and turns them into entrepreneurs, transforming the lives of entire communities.

| Insight

GCPF ACADEMY: PROMOTING GREEN FINANCE

GCPF organized a global peer learning and exchange event to overcome the biggest hurdle in green lending: the lack of technical know-how.

| Insight

PRODUCTIVITY GAINS? A PIECE OF CAKE!

Food systems currently consume 30% of the world’s available energy – and are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. India’s RBL Bank, a long-time GCPF partner institution, shows how farmers increase their productivity through energy loans for sustainable irrigation. The result: an interesting business area for the bank, higher incomes for the farmers, and climate protection for the world through reduced CO2 emissions and water consumption.

| Insight

Green lending: a practitioner's guide for financial institutions

There's substantial growth potential for green lending, also in developing countries where energy demand is growing at the fastest rate.

| Insight

Financing clean energy for Indian farmers: RBL Bank India

An interview with RBL Bank’s former Head of Agriculture & Rural Banking reveals how RBL Bank brought energy efficiency loans to rural clients.

| Insight

THE GLOBAL CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP AWARD

The Global Climate Partnership Award was launched in March 2018. Luke Franson, Head of Green Lending at GCPF’s investment manager responsAbility and chairman of the jury, talks about the outcome.

| Insight

Just launched: Green Lending Toolkit

The Green Lending (GL) Toolkit supports financial institutions to strategize, plan, and deploy green lending best practices with the overall goal to expand the GL portfolio. 

| Insight

Flexibility and Facilitation

With a real hands-on attitude, its own carbon reporting tool, and multiple engineers on staff, the Global Climate Partnership Fund not only invests in green lending but has also created a committed and energized community to foster CO2 reduction around the world.