About Us
The Global Climate Finance Accelerator convenes partnerships across business, finance, government, and academia to identify, investigate, and propose the policies, procedures, and tools required to finance the deployment of technically viable climate solutions.
Our vision is a competitive, climate-resilient, and equitable economy.
Our mission is to adapt existing products and services to build finance solutions that make climate positive projects “investible” when otherwise they would face traditional financing, policy and regulatory barriers.
The Accelerator also provides a professional forum for emerging leaders to build the expertise and technical skills required to future-proof businesses for an economy-wide transformation.
Advancing Climate Solutions Through Next-Gen Talent
We provide a professional platform for emerging leaders in finance, engineering, policy, and science to develop the expertise and technical capabilities needed to advance an equitable, net-zero economy. Each year, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, the Accelerator selects four full-time graduate students—one from each discipline—to identify and investigate solutions as our Accelerators-in-Residence.
Our Value Propositions
Our interconnected approach to accelerate climate finance solutions proposes investment-specific innovations to inform top-down
programs and funding platforms, develops the skills and experience of young professionals, and builds capacity in emerging markets.
What we do
Addressing the lack of commercially viable returns by:
- Integrating private capital with concessional instruments, catalytic grants, and targeted incentives
- Monetizing non-market benefits to improve project bankability
- Structuring revenue models around environmental assets e.g., carbon credits and biodiversity offsets
- Contributing to the development of enabling markets
- Developing capital mobilization strategies and bespoke pitch decks
- Aligning with climate mandates, return expectations, and risk tolerances of institutional and mission-aligned capital providers
Our Impact
- Mobilizing $675M in climate-aligned investment across clean energy, climate justice, and innovation
- De-risking early-stage climate solutions through innovative financial structuring (e.g., securitized PPAs, blended capital structure with concessional finance)
- Enabling multi-stakeholder collaboration across finance, government, Indigenous leadership, and academia
- Training and empowering emerging professionals, bridging technical expertise and leadership in climate finance
Solar & Industrial Decarbonization
- Supporting development of a 500 MW solar project for Indigenous communities
- Creating a replicable platform for commercial rooftop solar in Ontario, unlocking part of a 14 GW untapped market.
- Showcasing case studies to demonstrate scalable, securitized renewables, bolstering investor confidence.
- Facilitating job creation and workforce training through aggregated C&I solar deployment.
Cleantech Innovation
- Aggregating multiple DeepTech pilot projects under a single SPV, improving the odds of success across technologies.
- Focusing on process heat electrification and thermal storage, beating fossil fuel costs with 30% IRR and fast payback.
- Offering an investible path into high-risk, high-impact technologies via diversified exposure and structured exits.
Climate justice
- Deploying real-time climate monitoring in coastal African and Caribbean communities, bridging critical data gaps.
- Generating 17% IRR while supporting community-led sustainable enterprises (e.g., coffee, fisheries, conservation).
- Creating a self-sustaining model integrating data sales, carbon credits, and local employment.
- Supporting modular science education and data-driven decision-making in underserved regions.
Insights
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