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Climate Finance and Energy Innovation Hub

The Climate Finance and Energy Innovation Hub is a new partnership, launched in June 2022 by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund), the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) to accelerate access to clean and affordable energy in developing countries.

The Hub is a global end-to-end policy and finance platform, which will introduce innovative financing solutions to leverage additional capital for sustainable energy investments.

Overview document (PDF)

Objectives

Identify innovative solutions to meet the development challenges of partner countries, particularly gaps in green finance & private sector investments. 

Promote innovative business models and financing instruments to source, unlock, de-risk and scale-up private sector investments in energy access.

Foster new financing partnerships and blended finance mechanisms, including an Energy Access and Transition Trust Fund to accelerate deployment of solutions.

Key Activity Pillars

  • BIG DATA IMPACT - Provide real time data and market diagnostics to inform planning, policy and investment decisions.
  • ENERGY COMPACTS/POLICY AND REGULATORY SUPPORT - Develop country specific monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks to continually improve country action and finance operations.
  • KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY BUILDING - Offer countries a suite of products and services ranging from advocacy, planning, policy and capacity building.
  • TRANSFORMATIVE PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT - Support countries in identifying a pipeline of investment-ready projects for high-impact development.
  • INNOVATIVE FINANCING SOLUTIONS - Use a range of innovative and blended finance tools to crowd in domestic and international finance for local enterprises and projects.
  • FINANCING PARTNERSHIPS - Maximize synergies by working in conjunction with other strategic technical and knowledge partners, funders and financiers to scale up finance for the sector including clean cooking.