Invest For Climate Activity

The Invest for Climate Activity (IN4C) aims to mobilize public and private finance to support Colombia’s climate adaptation and mitigation targets. The activity will focus on transforming markets and financial systems to better value natural systems, incorporate climate risks and emissions-reduction targets in economic and financial decisions, and prioritize resilient and low emissions investments. The contract will involve working with financial institutions, developing and implementing climate-smart projects and businesses, and improving the enabling environment for climate-smart investment.

List of services/products to be provided by the contractor:

1. Mobilize public and private finance for climate adaptation and mitigation targets.
2. Transform markets and financial systems to better value natural systems.
3. Incorporate climate risks and emissions-reduction targets in economic and financial decisions.
4. Prioritize resilient and low emissions investments.
5. Work with financial institutions to catalyze transformational and systemic change in the financial systems.
6. Strengthen financial institutions' understanding of, and capacity for, green lending, climate risk and carbon accounting.
7. Provide capacity building support and technical assistance to expand existing or develop new risk-mitigation and concessional capital instruments.
8. Develop open, secure, and interoperable digital tools to assess the profitability and inclusivity of climate-smart projects/businesses.
9. Identify and accelerate climate-smart businesses and strengthen their commercial viability.
10. Support the design and preparation of climate-smart projects with the potential to reach climate impacts at scale, generate revenue, and have positive social and economic impacts.
11. Improve the enabling environment for climate-smart investment.
12. Support the Colombian government develop and improve policies that catalyze transformational and systemic change in the market and financial systems.