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Supporting the Financing of a Low-Carbon Economy

Partnering with financial institutions to design, fund, and scale sustainable energy and climate solutions.

Econoler

Financial Sector Climate Objectives Are Rapidly Accelerating

Financial institutions face growing pressures as they work to expand their climate finance activities and respond to evolving market and regulatory expectations.

Common challenges include:

  • Limited pipelines of bankable climate and energy efficiency projects
  • Difficulty defining and operationalizing a portfolio-level decarbonization strategy
  • High perceived and actual risks associated with new technologies and business models
  • Increasing regulatory and supervisory expectations on climate risk and sustainable finance
  • The need to build internal capacity in technical, environmental, and social due diligence
  • Difficulties in measuring and reporting climate and energy impacts across portfolios

Financial institutions must grow their climate finance portfolios, manage risk, and adapt to fast-evolving environmental, social, governance (ESG) and climate requirements while still delivering strong and sustainable returns.


Simultaneously, climate finance and climate-aligned investments, including energy efficiency and sustainable energy, offer major opportunities for differentiation, business growth, and long-term impact.



Transforming Strategy into Funded, Impactful Projects

We help financial institutions integrate sustainable energy and climate objectives into their core business — turning high-level commitments into concrete financial products, processes, and partnerships.

We begin by understanding your strategy, risk appetite, regulatory context, and existing product offering. From there, we co-design tailored solutions such as green credit lines, climate finance products, and de-risking mechanisms that are aligned with your processes as well as client and market realities.

Our work includes technical and financial structuring, eligibility criteria, operational manuals, risk management frameworks, and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems to track results.

Econoler has supported development finance institutions, national development banks, commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and impact investors in more than 180 countries. We have worked on green credit lines, blended finance facilities, guarantee mechanisms, and innovative business models that unlock energy efficiency, renewable energy, and broader climate investments — always in close partnership with local and international stakeholders.


A trusted partner for sustainable energy and climate finance

With more than 30 years of experience in fund design and over USD 1 billion currently under active management, we bring unmatched expertise to climate and sustainable energy finance initiatives.


Why work with us:

  • Hands-on experience designing and supporting sustainable energy and climate finance products with banks and development finance institutions
  • Global track record in energy efficiency and renewable energy, combined with strong local implementation partners
  • Multidisciplinary team of financial specialists, engineers, policy experts, market study expert, and environmental and social professionals
  • Proven expertise in aligning financial products with international standards (e.g. IFC performance standards, TCFD recommendations, Ecuador principles, among others) and donor requirements
  • Solid experience in technical assistance facilities that combine product design, capacity building, market development, and project monitoring

Some Key Services for Financial Institutions

We help you design and operationalize green and climate finance products such as credit lines, guarantees, and blended finance mechanisms that are aligned with your risk appetite, regulatory environment, and strategic objectives.

We help financial institutions translate sustainability commitments into practical, actionable strategies that drive real change across portfolios and operations. Our work includes developing climate finance strategies, green lending roadmaps, ESG integration plans, and institutional action plans aligned with international best practices and regulatory expectations.

We support financial institutions in embedding ESG considerations into their decision-making processes, risk management systems, and product designs. This includes developing ESG and gender policies, screening tools, and procedures that strengthen governance and improve the inclusiveness and sustainability of lending practices.

We deliver tailored training, coaching, and knowledge tools that build internal expertise on climate finance, energy efficiency, ESG integration, and project assessment. This enables teams to design, evaluate, and scale sustainable finance initiatives more confidently.

In addition, we support market stakeholders — including energy efficiency and renewable energy technology and services providers — by increasing their knowledge and ensuring clients understand the benefits of implementing sustainable energy projects. By strengthening the capacity of actors in the entire ecosystem, we help ensure the success of funds and credit lines.

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