Energizing Private Capital: Innovations in Guarantee Offerings for Climate Finance

The document argues that while green guarantees can mobilize up to five times more capital than loans, they are underutilized due to complexity, lack of technical assistance, high costs, and time horizon misalignments. It showcases case studies from the World Bank Group, Green Guarantee Company, TCX, GuarantCo, and a Sida-IFU partnership to demonstrate how streamlining processes, providing targeted technical support, subsidizing currency hedges, extending guarantee tenors to 20 years, and fostering bilateral cooperation can unlock private capital for the green transition in EMDEs.

• Green guarantees are a highly effective but underused tool for mobilizing private capital in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), capable of mobilizing up to five times more capital than other instruments like loans, yet they represent only 4% of multilateral development bank (MDB) commitments.
• The World Bank Group (WBG) has launched a centralized guarantee platform under MIGA to reduce the complexity and fragmentation of its 17 guarantee products, with a goal to triple annual guarantee issuance to USD 20 billion by 2030 to support renewable energy in EMDEs.
• The Green Guarantee Company (GGC) addresses the lack of bankable project pipelines in EMDEs through a projected USD 10 million Technical Assistance Facility that supports project structuring, capacity building, and market engagement over 20 years.
• The TCX Fund uses a partial donor-funded guarantee facility under the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) to provide subsidized currency risk hedges, aiming to support hedging for up to USD 10 billion for SDG-related projects by early 2025.
• GuarantCo mitigates time horizon misalignments by offering local currency contingent credit solutions for up to 20 years, which is significantly longer than the typical 10-year cap for many guarantee durations.
• Bilateral cooperation, such as the partnership between Sweden's Sida and Denmark's IFU, allows for the transfer of technical expertise and the use of the OECD-DAC framework to count risk premium subsidies as Official Development Assistance (ODA), reducing costs for borrowers in high-risk markets.

APA

Esquinca, K. D. G., Maguire, L., Yahmed, Z. B., & Peres, T. (2025). Energizing Private Capital: Innovations in Guarantee Offerings for Climate Finance. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Energizing-Private-Capital-Innovations-in-Guarantee-Offerings-for-Climate-Finance.pdf

Chicago

Esquinca, Karla D. González, Liam Maguire, Zeineb Ben Yahmed, and Taarika Peres. Energizing Private Capital: Innovations in Guarantee Offerings for Climate Finance. Climate Policy Initiative, 2025. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Energizing-Private-Capital-Innovations-in-Guarantee-Offerings-for-Climate-Finance.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{esquinca2025energizing, author = {Esquinca, Karla D. González and Maguire, Liam and Yahmed, Zeineb Ben and Peres, Taarika}, title = {{Energizing Private Capital: Innovations in Guarantee Offerings for Climate Finance}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Energizing-Private-Capital-Innovations-in-Guarantee-Offerings-for-Climate-Finance.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }