Emerging markets face a critical funding gap in their transition towards net zero, limiting their ability to mitigate climate risks and achieve sustainable development. Despite global commitments, the mobilisation of capital to these regions remains slow, hindered by insufficient collaboration, ineffective financing structures, and a lack of supportive policies. These barriers obstruct the scaling of impactful projects, private investment, and solutions to systemic climate risks.
B4NZ is addressing these systemic barriers through an integrated model that combines climate diplomacy, policy advocacy, private capital mobilisation, and deep local partnerships. Anchored in UK parliamentary engagement and our role as a UN Race to Zero Accelerator, this approach leverages the UK’s world-leading financial services ecosystem and its diplomatic reach to deliver scalable, high-integrity finance across priority regions.
Our Four-Pillar Model for Unlocking Climate Capital
- Nature & Energy Finance Innovation – Designing and executing blended finance structures, pooled portfolios, co-investment platforms, and outcome-linked bonds to move money into climate and nature projects at pace.
- Capacity Building & Institutional Readiness – Equipping partner countries and project pipelines to be investor-ready through targeted training, MRV systems, creditworthiness frameworks, and structuring support.
- Policy Enablement & Regulatory Frameworks – Developing National Climate Finance Manifestos, advancing bilateral Article 6.2 agreements, and piloting model green PPAs and MRV guidelines.
- Climate Diplomacy & Diplomatic Engagement – Convening ministers, investors, and civil society at high-level roundtables, securing parliamentary endorsements, and embedding pilot initiatives in multilateral forums.
This ecosystem model synchronises policy design, capital mobilisation, and pipeline aggregation through a central “Aggregator Engagement Unit”, enabling country platforms to evolve into scalable investment vehicles.
From Dialogue to Delivery
B4NZ’s approach is built on converting high-level commitments into practical, investable solutions. Our workstream embeds political agreements and policy frameworks into concrete financing structures, governance systems, and replicable delivery models that can attract capital at scale.
Through strategic convenings, targeted research, and multi-stakeholder engagement, we ensure that discussions lead to bankable projects, blended finance vehicles, and measurable climate and nature outcomes. This shift from dialogue to delivery is at the core of our mission creating trusted platforms where policy, capital, and local capacity align to unlock investment in emerging markets.
Flagship Projects
UAE – Facilitating Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
Delivers a market-tested blueprint for accelerating net-zero-aligned investment into developing economies. Integrates private, public, and philanthropic capital, identifies key enabling policies, and produces a scalable financing model with governance and monitoring structures.
Tanzania – Geothermal Energy Capacity Building
Supports scaling clean energy in Tanzania by strengthening local technical and financial capacity to structure climate-aligned geothermal deals. Delivers targeted training, workshops, and knowledge-sharing in partnership with Standard Chartered, the Green Climate Fund, CRDB Bank, and Tanzanian ministries.
UK–Bolivia Climate Finance Platform
Establishes a UK–Bolivia platform for results-based, high-integrity climate investment aligned with Article 6.2 (without UK claiming credits), positioning Bolivia as the flagship Mansion House Accord model for emerging markets. Combines political, financial, and institutional engagement to produce scalable governance and investment frameworks.
Ukraine – Institutional Investment in Energy Transition
Mobilises institutional capital to rebuild Ukraine’s energy system as resilient, renewable, and decentralised. Uses an aggregator model and five engagement streams to secure a UK–Ukraine Article 6.2 agreement, unlock £50–100m in pilot funding, and aggregate a £500m investment pipeline.
This integrated workstream is designed to catalyse sustainable investment flows, strengthen partnerships, and position the UK as a global leader in delivering climate finance to the markets where it will have the greatest impact.
For collaboration enquiries: action@b4nz.co.uk