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P4G is pleased to announce its 2018 Scale-Up Partnership Finalists. These eight partnerships were selected from a global competition that attracted 450 nominations from 80 countries. As scale-up partnership finalists, each partnership is receiving facilitation support to advance their project’s plans and is under consideration to receive up to US$ 1 million in scale-up funding. P4G will announce the partnerships receiving scale-up funding at the P4G Copenhagen Summit.

Each of these partnerships met P4G criteria and presented innovative solutions in one or more of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in food and agriculture, water, energy, cities and circular economy.

“We’re excited to share these eight stories as excellent examples of what a P4G partnership can be,” said P4G Global Director Ian de Cruz. “In addition to our start-up finalists, announced in August, our scale-up finalists and facilitated partnerships represent the diversity with which we can look to achieve inclusive growth and implement the sustainable development goals. These partnerships tangibly demonstrate how we are bringing growth, development and climate agendas together.”

See the 2018 P4G Scale-Up Partnerships below:

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This month, Africa GreenCo presented the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)/European Commission guarantee to GreenCo at the EU External Investment Plan outreach event in Lusaka on the 28th of May - showcasing the significant benefits the GreenCo model will deliver in the Zambian and wider regional energy sector by acting as a renewable energy creditworthy buyer of power. The EU External Investment Plan seeks to drive economic development in Africa by raising 44 billion Euros from financing institutions, the private sector and member states. The Africa GreenCo team also met with Dr. Lubinda Haabazoka, president of the Economics Association of Zambia who are working on Africa GreenCo’s national launch during the Zambian Economic Summit on “The Future of Economic Diplomacy: Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa” due to take place on the 24-26 July 2019 in Livingstone, Zambia.

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P4G Contact: Sangeetha Sarma: sangeetha.sarma@p4gpartnerships.org  

Washington DC, December 12, 2019—The Government of Zambia approved the introduction of Africa GreenCo as a creditworthy intermediary renewable energy purchaser to improve the country’s access needs and to mitigate against the negative impacts of climate change. This major milestone will accelerate Africa GreenCo’s operationalisation, enabling it to attract sustainable investors in the power sector and bring greater efficiencies in both the demand and supply side of the country’s energy industry.  

A P4G (Partnering for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030) 2019 Scale-Up partnership, Africa GreenCo is a public-private partnership that will support the expansion of renewable energy supply through new investments and reduced prices. In 2019, P4G awarded Africa GreenCo $1 million in scale-up funding and the partnership has also secured a $45 million commitment from Agence Française de Développement backed by the European Commission’s European Fund for Sustainable Development.  

“We’re grateful to the Government of Zambia for its support of Africa GreenCo and for taking this critical step. This is a momentous accomplishment that could transform the power sector in Zambia and other countries in Southern Africa,” said Robyn McGuckin, Head of Partnerships, P4G. “The ripple effects of a stable energy sector in Zambia will be felt across all areas in the country from education to improved access to health care, and will stimulate sustainable economic development.”  

Africa GreenCo will not own or operate any grid infrastructure or replace existing utilities. Instead, it will complement them and optimize the existing power sector in Zambia by mitigating credit risks on a portfolio basis and encouraging private sector investment that would enable quicker growth.  

"Today, we need true paradigm shifts toward low-emission and climate-resilient sustainable development in order to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on sustainable development and growth of Zambia and the Southern African region.  We are delighted to be working with the P4G, Africa GreenCo, the Green Climate Fund and a number of Zambia’s key cooperating partners to ensure that new business models, innovation and systemic change is delivered on the ground and felt by those most in need. Through this model we can attract the significant amount of funding required to harness Zambia’s abundant renewable energy resources,” said Honourable Alexander Chiteme, MP, Minister of National Development Planning, Zambia.  

“Through its role as a creditworthy intermediary, GreenCo will be well placed to provide an efficient link between small-to-medium sized renewable energy projects and the wider market, aggregating and diversifying supply and demand side risks, and helping to improve market structure and liquidity – a prerequisite for attracting significant funding to diversify the existing power system at a lower generation tariff”, said Ana Hajduka Founder and CEO of Africa GreenCo and GreenCo Power Services Limited – the operating company in Zambia.  

Africa GreenCo hopes to begin operations in Zambia next year and expects to expand to eSwatini, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries in Southern Africa. The long-term goal of the partnership is to replicate the model across Africa. Within 12 years, it aims to mobilize $5.6 billion in renewable energy investments.  

About P4G 

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is funding over 30 public-private partnerships with projects in developing countries. P4G is a collaborative partnership among 12 partner countries: Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Vietnam. P4G is funded by the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands and hosted at World Resources Institute. Other partner organizations include C40 Cities, Global Green Growth Institute, International Finance Corporation, World Economic Forum and the United Nations Global Compact. 

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WASHINGTON – 23 SEPTEMBER— P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030 Initiative, selected The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series, a partnership-driven project addressing SDG 2: Zero Hunger, as the 2019 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year. The winner was announced at the P4G Awards Luncheon, hosted by SAP, on the sidelines of the UN Climate Action Summit today. The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series, led by Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), represents the top partnership from nearly one hundred applicants and five finalists selected to represent each of P4G’s focal Sustainable Development Goal areas: food and agriculture, water, energy, cities and the circular economy.

The First Lady of the Republic of Colombia María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval presented the award to Natasha Garcha, Associate Director, Innovative Finance at IIX who accepted on behalf of The Women’s Livelihood BondTM Series. The Awards event included a global audience of high-level government leaders, CEOs, investors and civil society leaders.

The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series are innovative financial instruments “bringing Wall Street to back streets” by mobilizing large-scale private investments to drive women’s economic empowerment across multiple SDGs, including women in agriculture. Already, the partnership has raised US$8M in private capital to empower 385,000 underserved women across Southeast Asia to transition from subsistence to sustainable livelihoods. Other organizations supporting The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series include DBS Bank, ANZ, Shearman and Sterling, Hogan Lovells, Latham and Watkins, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, The Japan Research Institute, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), UN Women, The Clinton Global Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation.

P4G Global Director Ian de Cruz commented, “Congratulations to The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series for its recognition as the P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year. This partnership represents an innovative approach to financing programs that improve the lives of millions of women worldwide.. It is a model to inspire similar partnerships.”

P4G’s global judges selected The Women’s Livelihood Bond Series this partnership based on the combination of innovation, impact, scale and implementation ability. The judges were: Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief of Fast Company; Carole Kariuki, Chief Executive Office of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance; Frank Rijsberman, Director General of the Global Green Growth Institute; and Karin Finkelston, Vice President of Partnerships, Communication and Outreach at International Finance Corporation (IFC).  P4G also presented Awards of Excellence to the following partnerships representing P4G’s other focal sectors:

• SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) Award: The Latin American Water Funds Partnership – Contributing to water security across Latin America and the Caribbean through the creation of collective-action organizations that develop unified and long-term views of water security, with already USD 200,000 million leveraged.
• SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) Award: TRANSFORM -- Providing clean and affordable energy to low-income households and unlocking opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Myanmar.
• SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) Award: SiMPlify – Developing urban mobility solutions and best practices to improve city management and planning towards increased sustainability.
• SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) Award: 2020 Circular Fashion Commitment – Bringing together 90 companies, equivalent to 12.5% of the global fashion market, through signed commitments to focus on four key areas of circular fashion: design, collection, reuse and recycling.

About P4G

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is funding 20 public-private partnerships with projects in developing countries. P4G is a collaborative partnership among 12 partner countries: Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Vietnam. P4G is funded by the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands and hosted at World Resources Institute. Other partner organizations include, C40 Cites, Global Green Growth Institute, International Finance Corporation, World Economic Forum and the United Nations Global Compact.

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10/20/2018

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P4G: Frank Walter, frank.walter@p4gpartnerships.org

WorldGBC: Juanita Alvarez, jalvarez@worldgbc.org

COLOMBIA AND MEXICO SET TO BOOST GREEN BUILDINGS WITH P4G AWARD FOR CITIES ACTION PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE BUILDING EFFICIENCY ACCELERATOR

COPENHAGEN (October 20, 2018) — Buildings in Colombia and Mexico may get a green makeover thanks to expanded support for energy efficiency programs after winning a $600,000 award that transitions buildings at scale to save energy and prepare cities for a net zero future announced today at the Copenhagen P4G Summit.

This partnership between P4G and the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) focuses on equipping Green Building Councils (GBCs) to deliver transformational change in building efficiency city policies and action. One of the ways that GBCs are currently doing this is within the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) partnership.

“As nearly a third of the world’s energy goes to heat, light and cool buildings, reducing energy use can save money while also supporting global carbon reductions,” said Ian de Cruz, global director of Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G), the initiative that is providing the additional funding and support to the Cities Climate Action Project supported by the Building Efficiency Accelerator partnership.

The Cities Climate Action Project supported by the Building Energy Efficiency Accelerator is one of six partnerships selected by P4G to receive scale-up funding. Overall, P4G selected 24 partnerships to fund and support in 2018 following a global competition that attracted 450 submissions from 80 countries.

“As one of the key elements of our regional Cities Climate Action Project, the Building Efficiency Accelerator is a proven framework through which the public, private and NGO sectors can partner to deliver energy efficiency in buildings at scale,” said Terri Wills, CEO of the World Green Building Council. “This is why it is one of the partnerships through which our GBCs can support their cities. We look forward to expanding our work with cities in Colombia and Mexico to support their energy efficiency policies and programs at the city level while gearing up others in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru and Panama by sharing valuable expertise gained from work in other cities.”

The Colombia GBC has been leveraging the BEA in Bogotá for two years and recently announced that the city has adopted a new policy for more energy-efficient construction that is expected to reduce energy and water use in new buildings by 20 percent and 30 percent, respectively, when fully implemented. The city also will integrate the energy and water saving goals of Colombia’s national building efficiency code into its master plan.  

Juan Camilo González, Advisor to the Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa said: “Bogota is making great strides to transform the building and construction of our city to be greener and more sustainable.  Our city strategy and policies will help mitigate the impact that our citizens and buildings have on the environment: to help us to guarantee sustainable environmental, social and economic development."

“Fragmentation of the building and construction sectors can make scaling energy efficiency best practices and innovation more complex than in other industries,” said Clay Nesler, Vice President, Global Sustainability and Industry Initiatives at Johnson Controls. “Partnerships and collaboration are therefore crucial to help buildings achieve their full potential for reducing carbon emissions, improving economic outcomes in cities, and improving health and wellbeing.”

Better building efficiency policies can result in 25-50 percent reductions in energy demand from both new and existing buildings, saving money and reducing pollution. Energy efficiency measures in the building sector could deliver 5.8 billion tons of CO2 emissions savings by 2050, according to WorldGBC. Most of the technologies needed to do so are already commercially available and many deliver positive financial returns within relatively short payback periods.

About P4G

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is a new initiative with the ambition of becoming the world’s leading forum for developing concrete public-private partnerships at scale to deliver on the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement. The government of Denmark provides funding for P4G. Besides the partner countries, non-profit organizations such as the Global Green Growth Institute, C40 Cities, World Economic Forum, and the World Resources Institute (which hosts the P4G Global Hub) are also P4G partners.

About WorldGBC

The World Green Building Council is a global network of Green Building Councils that is transforming the places where we live, work, play, heal and learn. The goal is to help reduce the building and construction sector’s CO2 emissions by 84 gigatonnes and ensure all buildings have net zero emissions by 2050. We believe green buildings can and must be at the centre of our lives. Our changing climate means we must reshape the way we grow and build, enabling people to thrive both today and tomorrow. We take action – championing local and global leadership and empowering our community to drive change. Together, we are greater than the sum of our parts, and commit to green buildings for everyone, everywhere.  worldgbc.org

About the Building Efficiency Accelerator

The Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) is a partnership of businesses, NGOs and multilaterals assisting local governments to take action to improve their buildings. The BEA is coordinated by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and includes more than three dozen partners, including WorldGBC. The BEA is supported by Johnson Controls, Inc., and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Learn more at buildingefficiencyaccelerator.org.

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Contact: Sangeetha Sarma, Head of Communications, sangeetha.sarma@p4gpartnerships.org

WASHINGTON, DC – May 19, 2020 – Today, the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) initiative awarded Scale-Up funding to nine public-private partnerships to accelerate their transformative business models aimed at helping countries reach their Sustainable Development Goals and build more resilient economies. The 2020 P4G Scale-Up Partnerships will each receive up to $1,000,000 in funding.

“P4G’s mission of investing in inclusive and viable new finance and business models comes to life with our cohort of Scale-Up Partnerships. We’re pleased to welcome this group of innovators to our family. As countries plan their COVID-19 recoveries, these transformative models provide the immediate responses needed to achieve a low carbon recovery and will help move the needle in this decade of action and delivery. As our P4G impact model is enhanced, we will apply our venture capital approach and leverage our strong eco-system of engaged policymakers and organizational partners to accelerate these partnerships,” says Ian de Cruz, P4G Global Director.

The 2020 Scale-Up Partnerships are models of change that are adapting their solutions and leveraging P4G’s support to meet global COVID-19 economic recovery needs. The IIX Women’s Livelihood Bond Series will mobilize up to $30 million to help more than half a million women access and build capital during a time when they will face enhanced credit challenges. The Circular Fashion Agenda will create models to address the implications of textile manufacturing waste and the cancellation of $2.8 billion worth of orders because of COVID-19 that directly impacts Bangladesh’s garment sector, and FLAWLESS that will test viable financial models of reducing food loss and waste to respond to the increased revenue generating needs of businesses in the food and hospitality sector.

The cohort also includes P4G’s first Scale-Up Partnership pursuing SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation for all. The Finance for WASH Access partnership will work closely with commercial banks and microfinance institutions to unleash private investment capital for water and sanitation solutions in Ethiopia. Other partnerships like ZEBRA and the Getting to Zero Coalition are working to achieve zero emission transit across buses and international shipping respectively.

"P4G has been valuable in bringing us closer to achieve Colombia's climate ambitions through its ability to bring in key players like the private sector. Reducing emissions in transportation is a top priority for us in line with our National Development Plan and our National Strategy for Electric and Sustainable Mobility, and we look forward to an ongoing collaboration with P4G through the ZEBRA partnership. As Colombia and economies around the world recover from COVID-19, we see great value in the on-the-ground approach P4G brings to achieve scalable and sustainable systems change,” said Luis Alberto Rodriguez Ospino, Minister for Planning.

“Cooperation not competition is the key to bringing about the necessary systemic changes and that's true now more than ever as countries and corporations around the world design their COVID-19 responses and recoveries. Sustainability, particularly issues such as climate change and achieving net zero emissions through industry transition, such as international shipping, must remain at the forefront.  We especially value P4G’s ability to implement practical projects at a country level, and look forward to our collaboration with P4G on the Getting to Zero Coalition,” says Børge Brende, World Economic Forum President and P4G Board member.

These nine partnerships join P4G’s growing portfolio of more than 50 partnership-driven business models working across the initiative’s priority sectors: food and agriculture, water, energy, cities, and circular economy. Learn more about the 2020 P4G Scale-Up Partnerships below:

• Circular Fashion Agenda works with manufacturers, recyclers and major fashion brands to improve the resilience of the garment industry and increase political and consumer pressure to make it more sustainable. The partnership will work in Bangladesh to capture and direct fashion waste back into the production of new fashion products to increase the use of recycled materials while also growing revenues for its partners.
• Energise Africa is a crowdfunding platform that allows everyday investors to support small and medium enterprise African solar companies. The partnership will support more than 40 renewable energy companies in Africa by mobilizing more than $1.7 billion in people-powered finance over the next five years, enabling energy access for over 50 million people.
• Finance for WASH Access will work closely with commercial banks and microfinance institutions to unleash private investment capital for water and sanitation solutions in Ethiopia.
• Halving Food Loss and Waste by Leveraging Economic Systems (FLAWLESS) will develop, road test, and deploy commercial financial models of FLW reduction in Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa where the current size of the market is an estimated $85 billion. This partnership could help P4G country partners mobilize millions in private investment, scaling over time, and create a sustainable and resilient model that could be replicated in new markets
• GeoFutures GreenInvest will catalyze funding to geothermal investment projects in Kenya and Ethiopia that can unlock 600 MW of low cost, reliable geothermal power in Kenya and Ethiopia, supply more than 31.5 million households with power, and avoid almost 3.1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
• Getting to Zero Coalition will work toward having commercially-viable zero emission deep sea vessels operating by 2030. The partnership will focus on Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa to identify investment opportunities to build a globally sustainable shipping supply chain.
• Sustainable Food Partnership will support issues of food security, nutrition and crop resilience in Ethiopia by producing high nutrient biscuits using locally-sourced drought-resistant crops. The partnership will engage the whole supply chain to increase the profitability of farmers and businesses, and provide better nutrition to women, children and refugee communities. 
• IIX Women’s Livelihood Bond Series will mobilize up to $30 million in capital to empower over half a million women in Indonesia, Kenya and South Africa. Its responsive and resilient model recognizes and supports women as agents of economic change.
• Zero Emissions Bus Rapid-deployment Accelerator (ZEBRA) aims to accelerate the deployment of zero-emission bus fleets in Latin America through national and regional engagement across Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. The partnership aims to facilitate the deployment of approximately 3,600 e-buses and create a combined investment value of at least USD 1.63 billion by 2022 in Latin America.

About P4G

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – invests in over 50 public-private partnerships with projects in developing countries. P4G is a collaborative partnership among 12 partner countries: Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Vietnam. P4G is funded by the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands and hosted at the World Resources Institute. Other partner organizations include C40 Cities, Global Green Growth Institute, International Finance Corporation, United Nations Global Compact and the World Economic Forum.

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BOGOTÁ – 8 de octubre de 2019– Hoy, el Gobierno de Colombia y P4G (Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030) anunciaron el lanzamiento de la Plataforma Nacional de P4G: una comunidad de líderes del gobierno, empresas, y organizaciones de la sociedad civil que guiarán en Colombia la formación de alianzas público-privadas para promover el cumplimiento de los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). 

La Plataforma Nacional hará contribuciones críticas a la meta de Colombia de lograr una economía baja en carbono. El país se ha comprometido a reducir hasta 30% de las emisiones de gases efecto invernadero para el año 2030, una meta que requiere acciones coordinadas de líderes de diferentes sectores. A través de la Plataforma Nacional de P4G, el Gobierno de Colombia tendrá la oportunidad de ampliar su red de innovadores, líderes de pensamiento, e inversionistas orientados a soluciones de crecimiento verde.

El lanzamiento, organizado por el Gobierno de Colombia y la Embajada de Dinamarca, incluyó presentaciones de alto nivel de la Primera Dama de la República, Sra. María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval, el Embajador de Dinamarca Sr. Mogens Pedersen, el Ministro de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Sr. Ricardo José Lozano, y la Directora de Estrategia e Involucramiento de P4G, Leila Surratt. Igualmente, en dos sesiones adicionales, panelistas discutieron cómo P4G está ayudando a promover el transporte sostenible Colombia, en línea con la recientemente lanzada Estrategia para la Movilidad Eléctrica y Sostenible. Los presentadores también discutieron las contribuciones de las alianzas de P4G en Colombia hacia la energía limpia y la eficiencia de los edificios. Más de noventa personas de diversos sectores asistieron a este evento.

“En mi rol de Embajadora nacional del ODS 17, es un honor participar en el Lanzamiento de Plataforma Nacional de P4G, una iniciativa que está acelerando y financiando proyectos que contribuyen al crecimiento verde y soluciones que nos permiten visibilizar y apoyar las alianzas que en nuestro país contribuyen al desarrollo sostenible”, dijo la Primera Dama.

El Director del DNP reiteró el compromiso del Gobierno nacional para coordinar la iniciativa de P4G, así como la implementación de la Agenda 2030 y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

“Como Director del DNP, me parece importante reforzar el mensaje de que el desarrollo sostenible es responsabilidad de todos los actores de la sociedad. P4G considera al sector privado como un actor fundamental para el crecimiento verde”.

“Es un honor para nosotros trabajar con el Gobierno de Colombia para lanzar la Plataforma Nacional de P4G,” dijo Surratt. “Con nuestros aliados colombianos ya hemos construido unas bases sólidas para el progreso. Desde nuestras cinco alianzas trabajando por ODS en Colombia hasta el liderazgo de la Primera Dama, quien presentó en nuestro evento en Nueva York, los premios P4G 2019, agradecemos esta visión compartida por un futuro más sostenible e inclusivo con los actores clave en Colombia. Esperamos avanzar de manera exitosa en las actividades futuras.”

Para aplicar a la convocatoria 2020 de P4G, las alianzas deben incluir entidades gubernamentales, empresas y la sociedad civil, desarrollar los proyectos en uno o más países en desarrollo, y ofrecer una solución comercialmente viable para uno o más de los Objetivos de desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) priorizados: alimentación y agricultura, agua, energía, ciudades y economía circular. La convocatoria 2020 se encuentra actualmente abierta.

P4G financia cinco alianzas en Colombia:

The Zero Emission Bus Rapid-deployment Accelerator en la Ciudad de México, México, São Paulo, Brasil y Medellín, Colombia, trabaja para aumentar la utilización de buses eléctricos. ZEBRA espera asegurar un compromiso público de las instituciones financieras regionales de invertir 1.000 millones de dólares en tecnología de transporte eléctrico de cero emisiones para el año 2021. La alianza también trabaja para lograr compromisos de los principales fabricantes de buses y motores para apoyar el aumento de los vehículos eléctricos, en colaboración con las ciudades, en las especificaciones de los vehículos, olas estrategias de carga, proyectos piloto, financiación y otros pasos necesarios para el despliegue de flotas de buses eléctricos.

The Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) amplía el acceso de energía limpia con empresas multinacionales en mercados en desarrollo, incluyendo Colombia, Indonesia y Vietnam. La alianza se enfoca en tres pilares para aumentar el acceso de energía limpia a escala: compradores, redes y políticas. Después de recibir financiamiento de P4G por segunda vez en 2019, la alianza ampliará sus modelos de adquisición de energía renovable en Colombia.

Cities Climate Action Project supported by the Building Efficiency Accelerator trabaja a través de una red internacional que incluye Consejos de Construcción Verde, gobiernos de ciudades, empresas y varias ONGs para lograr un cambio transformador en las prácticas de construcción. La meta es que el proyecto proporcione las herramientas para desarrollar e implementar políticas y programas de construcción de energía eficiente para aumentar el ahorro de energía en las ciudades que lo necesiten. A través del apoyo de P4G, la iniciativa se está ampliando en toda Latinoamérica, con un enfoque en Colombia y México.

PlusPlus está diseñado para escalar pequeñas y medianas empresas dedicadas a actividades de agroalimentación en los países en desarrollo que se consideran demasiado grandes para el microcrédito y demasiado pequeñas para los bancos convencionales. La alianza provee una solución dando acceso a la financiación de estas empresas vinculándolas a un grupo de inversionistas. Esta alianza estimulará la expansión de muchas empresas agroalimentarias, contribuyendo al desarrollo económico sostenible y a la lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza en Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenia, México y Zambia.

Electric Mobility Partnership for Colombia tiene el objetivo de llevar los principios de la economía verde a la microeconomía del tráfico y la movilidad trabajando con una aerolínea latinoamericana para renovar su flota de vehículos terrestres del Aeropuerto El Dorado en Bogotá. Para cumplir esta meta, la alianza hará seguimiento a la cantidad de residuos orgánicos que produce el aeropuerto y cuánto de esto se puede utilizar para el funcionamiento de los vehículos de la flota. Al finalizar, esta alianza tendrá un modelo de economía circular para un sector de transporte más sostenible en Bogotá.

About P4G

P4G – P4G es una iniciativa global con la ambición de convertirse en la iniciativa líder para el desarrollo de alianzas público-privadas que se enfoquen en soluciones de mercado para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible. P4G está financiando veinte alianzas con proyectos en países en desarrollo, y trabaja conjuntamente con doce países: Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Dinamarca, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenia, México, los Países Bajos, la República de Corea, Sudáfrica, y Vietnam. El gobierno de Dinamarca y los Países Bajos financian P4G y el World Resources Institue en Washington D.C. es la organización provee su sede. Otras organizaciones asociadas incluyen C40 Cities, Global Green Growth Institute, International Finance Corporation, World Economic Forum y United Nations Global Compact.

About DNP

DNP – el Departamento Nacional de Planeación es un Departamento Administrativo que pertenece a la Rama Ejecutiva del poder público y depende directamente de la Presidencia de la República. Los departamentos administrativos son entidades de carácter técnico encargadas de dirigir, coordinar un servicio y otorgar al Gobierno la información adecuada para la toma de decisiones. Tienen la misma categoría de los Ministerios, pero no tienen iniciativa legislativa. El DNP es una entidad eminentemente técnica que impulsa la implantación de una visión estratégica del país en los campos social, económico y ambiental, a través del diseño, la orientación y evaluación de las políticas públicas colombianas, el manejo y asignación de la inversión pública y la concreción de las mismas en planes, programas y proyectos del Gobierno.

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Contact: Frank Walter, Head of Communications, P4G | frank.walter@p4gpartnerships.org 

OXFORD—17 July 2019— More than 600 million people living in Africa lack access to electricity – a statistic that has become somewhat of a refrain in global development spheres.

Energise Africa, a 2018 P4G start-up partnership, is steadily working to decrease that number by offering innovative financing and investing models to supply renewable energy to diverse communities across Uganda, Mali, Kenya, DRC, Mozambique, Tanzania, Senegal, Rwanda, Cameroon and Burkina Faso.

A joint venture of Ethex and Lendahand, two of Europe’s leading online impact investing platforms, the partnership connects with every-day people to provide affordable finance for pioneering solar businesses to accelerate universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, whilst targeting returns of around 6%. With investments starting at £50, Energise Africa offers every-day investors an affordable, low-risk option that also appeals to the global, growing interest in connecting one’s money to one’s values.

Following the close of their contract with P4G, the partnership has grown its registered base of investors more than 50%, from just over 1,110 participants at the start of the contract period to more than 1,800 today. Actual investors also grew by more than 291 individuals to almost 1,100 over the courses of the funding period. This growth of involved ‘every-day people’ enable the partnership to raise USD 11.5 million in cumulative investments via the platform, the effects of which are threefold: helping 358,000 people access solar energy, mitigating CO2 emissions by 78,000 tons a year and successfully repaying USD 3.5 million to investors. P4G start-up funding also contributed to digital marketing for the Energise Africa initiative, ultimately translating into increased action taken by users and viewers of Energise Africa platforms and materials.

Looking forward, Energise Africa will continue working to provide its community of investors with more protection around their investments. In approaching this task, they have pioneered their first investor guarantee in the United Kingdom, “protecting the capital invested by first time investors up to  £100” to encourage people to get started on impact investing with subsidized risk.  

About P4G

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is currently funding and facilitating 24 public-private partnerships. These include projects to accelerate the adoption of electric buses in Latin America, expand the supply of renewable energy in Sub-Sahara Africa, reduce food loss and waste in Indonesia and reduce plastic and packaging waste from e-commerce in China. P4G is a collaborative partnership among nine partner countries: Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam.  In addition, C40, World Economic Forum, Global Green Growth Institute, IFC and World Resources Institute, which hosts P4G’s global hub, are partner organizations to P4G.

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The vision of electric buses transporting the residents of Latin America’s largest cities is gaining measurable momentum. Already, there are more than 100 electric buses on the road in Santiago, Chile’s largest city, as part of a private initiative between electric utility Enel and bus operator Metbus. An additional 100 electric buses will hit the streets in early March as part of an arrangement between electric utility Engie and two bus operators, STP Santiago and Buses Vule. TranSantiago, the public provider of bus services in this capital city of more than 6 million residents, aims to replace approximately 500 diesel buses with electric buses when it releases its next new bus tender.  

The Zero Emission Bus Rapid-Deployment Accelerator (ZEBRA), a 2018 P4G Partnership led by the International Council on Clean Transportation and C40 Cities, is working to support municipalities in the region to increase their deployment of electric buses, which can lead to cleaner air in heavily congested cities and a reduction carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. 

While Santiago has the region’s largest electric bus fleet, other cities are making plans for future deployments, according to Ray Minjares, who leads the program for clean air at ICCT. ZEBRA partners have seen success in Medellín, Colombia, where the city issued in December 2018 a successful tender for 64 battery electric buses to be deployed by mid-2019. The City of Medellín has committed itself to shift to zero emission bus purchases by 2030. A prototype of the new electric buses will be ready by early April. In addition, the City of Sao Paulo has opened bids on the renovation if its fleet, the largest in Latin America. Sao Paulo has a climate law adopted in early 2018 that requires a 100 percent shift away from fossil diesel buses. ZEBRA partners are supporting city officials with strategies to bring zero emission buses into the fleet and ensure compliance with the climate law.

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Media Contact: Frank Walter, P4G Head of Communications, frank.walter@p4gpartnerships.org

WASHINGTON – 3 APRIL— P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030 Initiative, announced today the opening of its 2019 State-of-the-Art Partnership Awards application. The awards recognize innovative public-private partnerships that have achieved measurable success in their approach to one or more of five UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

P4G and a panel of expert judges will select a winner from the following SDG areas:

• SDG 2 Zero Hunger
• SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
• SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
• SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production (circular economy)

To qualify, a partnership must include at least one organization each from the private, public and civil society sectors and have achieved measurable impact in its target SDG sector. The global competition is open to partnerships in any country or combination of countries. P4G will accept applications on its website, p4gpartnerships.org, no later than June 30. The five sector winners will showcase their partnership and compete for the partnership of the year award to be announced at a recognition event on the sidelines of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 in New York City, September 23.

At the P4G Copenhagen Summit in October 2018, attended by a global audience of heads of state, CEOs, investors and civil society leaders, a panel of judges selected the Courtauld Commitment, a partnership that has achieved much success in reducing food waste in the U.K., as the 2018 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year. Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark presented the winner with a Danish-designed award during the televised ceremony. All the 2018 finalists and winners are featured on the P4G website and YouTube channel.

“Winning the 2018 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year Award was a powerful recognition of the proven impact of the Courtauld Commitment over the last 13 years,” remarked Marcus Gover, Chief Executive of WRAP, the leading partner for the 2018 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership recipient. “It has helped us build credibility for the value and importance of public-private partnerships and has assisted us hugely in our work replicating this with partners around the world.”

The 2019 winning partnership will be prominently featured in P4G outreach and social media and will also gain access to P4G’s growing network of CEOs and government leaders around the world. Promotional partners include C40, Global Green Growth Institute, IFC, SAP Next-Gen, UN Global Compact, World Economic Forum and World Resources Institute.

“We aim to showcase state-of-the-art partnerships that can be models for other partnerships looking to achieve impact on the SDGs including P4G partnerships,” said P4G Global Director Ian de Cruz. “These partnerships provide demonstration value to inspire and scale new business and finance models to drive sustainable development and to power the green economy.” 

More information on the P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership Award is available on the P4G website.

About P4G

P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – is currently funding and facilitating 24 public-private partnerships. These include projects to accelerate the adoption of electric buses in Latin America, expand the supply of renewable energy in Sub-Sahara Africa, reduce food loss and waste in Indonesia and reduce plastic and packaging waste from e-commerce in China. P4G is a collaborative partnership among nine partner countries: Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam.  In addition, C40, World Economic Forum, Global Green Growth Institute, IFC and World Resources Institute, which hosts P4G’s global hub, are partner organizations to P4G.