| CCFLA works to mobilize private capital for urban climate action by strengthening collaboration between actors, increasing knowledge of investment strategies, and advancing solutions that de-risk investment and scale private finance into sustainable urban infrastructure. |
Private investment is essential to deliver climate-resilient and low-carbon infrastructure in cities. While private finance already plays a role, it remains underutilized and concentrated in a limited number of markets and sectors. Investors often face high risks, unclear regulatory environments, and limited coordination with public actors – barriers that restrict capital and slow the delivery of urban climate solutions.
This workstream exists to addresses these challenges by strengthening collaboration between cities, investors, and financial institutions, and by promoting solutions that reduce risk and improve the investment case for urban climate projects.
• Increase private sector engagement in urban climate finance, with a focus on infrastructure investors and insurers.
• Develop knowledge and coordination platforms that support scalable investment opportunities.
• Advance activities that help channel private capital more effectively toward closing the urban climate finance gap.
Developing tools, resources and evidence that private investors need to engage confidently in urban climate finance, and that supports cities in understanding how to access and work with private capital.
Organizing industry-focused events, training programs, and convenings that bring private sector actors into the conversation and highlight the importance and opportunity of financing urban climate projects.
Supporting dialogue between public and private actors to help shape policy and regulatory environments that enable and scale private investment in urban climate infrastructure.
This policy brief aims to support cities in mobilizing private capital by understanding the factors that shape private investment, engaging the appropriate actors, and overcoming barriers to investment. This brief is the first in a three-part CCFLA series on de-risking private investment in cities for low-carbon, resilient infrastructure—the second report maps urban infrastructure guarantees, and the third examines the role of urban insurance as an enabler of private investment.
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This series presents tools to enhance urban governments’ access to climate finance by assessing national enabling framework conditions. It also includes findings from our pilot applications in India and Indonesia, where the CCFLA/UrbanAct National Assessment Tool was used to evaluate countries’ national-level EFCs and their effectiveness in mobilizing subnational climate finance.
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Barriers to private urban climate investments can be found at the macro, city, and project levels. This Report explores the barriers, good practice lessons, and recommendations to improve local enabling conditions to attract private sector capital to support climate investments in cities of emerging economies.
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johnmichael.lasalle@cpiglobal.org