{"id":28678,"date":"2022-11-03T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-to-launch-investors-green-projects-fund-at-cop27"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:30:51","slug":"rwanda-to-launch-investors-green-projects-fund-at-cop27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/rwanda-to-launch-investors-green-projects-fund-at-cop27","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to launch investors\u2019 green projects fund at COP27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda\u2019s new fund dubbed \u201cGreen Investment Facility\u201d which is solely dedicated to financing private investors\u2019 green projects is expected to be launched at the 27th UN climate conference (COP27) taking place from November 8 to November 18 in Egypt, officials have announced.<\/p>\n

Teddy Mugabo, the CEO of Rwanda Green Fund known as FONERWA [ which provides grants to public, private, and NGOs initiatives] said that the new financing facility for only private-sector green projects will be managed in partnership with the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD).<\/p>\n

The facility will operate under the \u201cGreen Bank\u201d model and is seeking $100 million to start operations.<\/p>\n

Mugabo was talking about in a Twitter space dialogue dubbed \u201cAccelerating green investment and green investment opportunities\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to rethink about instruments we need to put in place to attract private capital. This is how the Green Investment facility came about. Its first objective is to leverage private investments and the second objective is to provide tailored financial products to attract the private sector,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said that the fund aims to make green finance affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreen ventures are always seen as high risk. Commercial banks do not want to go that route because when we talk about green projects, there is a lot of innovation, there is a need to rethink technologies, and the moment you start thinking about these, perceptions of risk increase. So that is the role of the facility to de-risk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mugabo said that the financing facility has two windows.<\/p>\n

One window which will be managed by Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA) is the \u2018project preparation facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will provide grants to support early-stage businesses. Here I mean we might have an entrepreneur who is in waste recycling who might have an idea that needs to be tested.<\/p>\n

So through the project preparation facility, we want to support entrepreneurs by giving them business development support or they might need the grant to test their products like a proof of concept,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

She also highlighted that this window will finance feasibility studies for projects such as renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they have to conduct feasibility studies, we will provide grants or reimbursable grants to them. We want to de-risk through grants where we can help projects move from ideation to bankability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Handling the issue of lacking bankable green projects<\/p>\n

She said that the decision to provide grants to de-risk projects was triggered by a lack of bankable projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because one of the biggest challenges looking at the bank\u2019s side is that they might be willing to invest in green projects but there is a lack of a pipeline of bankable projects,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

She said the fund will offer products that go all the way from ideation of business development support to proof of concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will help to build projects which when they are ready to scale can then move to a credit facility that will be managed by the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) which can provide debt financing. We are looking to provide concessional and affordable financing. If in commercial banks, interest rates are at 18 percent we will try to reduce to lower interest rates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will make sure that we try to source and get affordable financing. There’s more sort of incentivizing them,\u201d reiterated Jean Claude Iliboneye, The Head of the Business Development Fund at BRD.<\/p>\n

She said that the fund has also thought of providing a partial credit guarantee that is going to support those green projects that actually have issues of collateral.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have blended financing where there could be a mixture of grant and debt to make sure that at the end of the day the cost of financing is low and affordable. We will be engaging with financial institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nick Barigye, CEO of Rwanda Finance Ltd said that it is also in the drive to attract sustainable green investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cSustainable finance means environmental, social, and governance factors for any economic activity that you are doing. And giving examples, if you’re talking about the environment, are you considering how you pollute? have you put into consideration how you are going to handle pollution, how you are going to deal with waste management?\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Rwanda plans to reduce carbon emissions by 38 percent by 2030 and this will require Rwanda to mobilize $11 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. Rwanda\u2019s new fund dubbed \u201cGreen Investment Facility\u201d which is solely dedicated to financing private investors\u2019 green projects is expected to be launched at the 27th UN climate conference (COP27) taking place from November 8 to November 18 in Egypt, officials have announced. 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