FAST – Infra (‘Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition – Infrastructure’) Background to FAST-Infra

FAST-Infra is a public-private partnership involving banks, asset managers, governments, and development banks aimed at accelerating private investment in sustainable infrastructure in developing countries. The initiative is developing a sustainable infrastructure labelling system to guide governments, developers, and institutional investors, alongside four pilot market mechanisms: a technology-enabled securitization platform, a global off-take/revenue guarantee provider, an open-sourced managed co-lending portfolio programme, and a sustainable financing facility for national development banks.

• FAST-Infra is establishing a labelling system for sustainable infrastructure designed to assist governments and developers during the pre-construction phase in building resilient assets with low environmental impact, while helping institutional investors identify assets for refinancing during the post-construction phase.
• The initiative is developing four specific pilot financing solutions to mobilize private capital: a technology-enabled securitization platform using natural language processing to analyze project terms; a global provider for project off-take revenue or liquidity guarantees to make power purchase agreements bankable; an open-sourced managed co-lending portfolio programme (OMCPP) involving multiple multilateral development banks and private entities; and a Sustainable Financing Facility (SFF) that lends to national development banks for sustainable projects.
• FAST-Infra operates as a broad collaboration of nearly 100 institutions, including global investors (such as Temasek and Swiss Re), financial intermediaries (such as HSBC and Citi), development finance institutions (such as the World Bank and IFC), and governments including the UK, US, France, Germany, and Japan.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (n.d.). FAST – Infra (‘Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition – Infrastructure’) Background to FAST-Infra. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FAST-Infra-Overview-Nov-2020.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. FAST – Infra (‘Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition – Infrastructure’) Background to FAST-Infra. n.d. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FAST-Infra-Overview-Nov-2020.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiativendfast, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{FAST – Infra (‘Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition – Infrastructure’) Background to FAST-Infra}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FAST-Infra-Overview-Nov-2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }