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Unlocking access to finance, energy, and resilience solutions
Since 2021, RMI’s Climate Finance Access Network has addressed a persistent capacity gap facing vulnerable nations in the Pacific when it comes to unlocking and mobilizing climate finance
Climate finance mobilized across the Pacific over 4 years
Climate-related projects, with a total value of over $1 billion, spanning 14 Pacific Island nations
Highly trained climate finance advisors directly supporting Pacific countries
Launched in the Pacific in 2021, the Climate Finance Access Network (CFAN) was created to address the challenge of accessing critical finance for energy and resilience. Coordinated by RMI, CFAN has proven effective in removing barriers to climate finance by building in-country capacity. An initial $7 million investment has generated a $2.6 billion project pipeline, unlocked more than $243 million in funding, and trained over 700 public-sector practitioners in climate finance fundamentals.
RMI’s Islands Energy Program supports islands to develop inclusive, resilient energy strategies; scale renewable, grid modernization and electric-mobility projects; and share impactful knowledge among islands to achieve their clean energy goals. Building on deep experience in the Caribbean, the program has expanded to cover global islands efforts, including the Pacific.
The stories of CFAN advisors Manon Marcadet in French Polynesia and Rowena Tolentino in The Bahamas inform the uphill fight for climate finance in non-ODA countries and territories.
“Given the lived reality of most Pacific Islanders to the impacts of climate change, it has been elevated in the region as critical to our very survival.”
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