Accelerating the clean energy transition and climate-smart land use
The Canada-World Bank Clean Energy and Forests Climate Facility targets financing to where it is needed most to stimulate investment in inclusive, green growth.
Established in 2020 with CAD400 million in loans and CAD10 million in grant contributions from Canada, the Facility will support transformational climate actions of World Bank projects, with a focus on Asia’s clean energy transition, renewable energy in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and forests and sustainable land use. Financing from the Facility will:
- Catalyze and scale up clean energy climate financing across multiple sectors
- Accelerate energy efficiency and renewable energy market development
- Promote the mainstreaming of gender considerations in clean energy investments
- Support sustainable landscapes, climate-smart land use, and green supply chains, as well as new financial instruments that promote private sector investment and public-private partnerships
The facility has four programs:
- Energy transition (ET): CAD275 million to co-finance World Bank projects that aim to slow the expansion of coal in the power sector by scaling up low-carbon alternatives (including solar, wind, and geothermal), as well as improve energy efficiency, and grid modernization. Financing will help strengthen the capacity of key institutional actors to design regulatory incentives to boost energy efficiency and markets for renewable energy.
- Renewable energy in SIDS (RE-SIDS): CAD50 million to co-finance World Bank projects for renewable energy investments.
- Forests and landscapes (FAL): CAD75 million to co-finance World Bank projects working to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to foster conservation, sustainable management, and enhancement of forest resources.
- Gender equality in the renewable energy sector in SIDS (GE-SIDS): CAD10 million in grants to provide technical assistance in SIDS to pursue gender equality through women’s employment and enterprise development across energy value chains.
Projects with committed co-financing:
Program | Project | Co-financing Amount (US$M) | Country |
FAL | Landscapes and Livelihoods Project (P170559) | 16.00 | Lao PDR |
RE-SIDS | Renewable Energy Sector Development Project (P161316) | 3.71 | Saint Lucia |
RE-SIDS | Sustainable Electricity Service Project (P170236) | 7.00 | Cabo Verde |
ET | Eskom Just Energy Transition Project (P177398) | 47.50 | South Africa |
Approved grants (GE-SIDS):
Grant name | Grant amount (US$M) | Region/ Country |
Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector (P179212) | 0.53 | World |
Maldives Gender and Energy Roadmap under the South Asia Gender and Energy Facility II (SAGE II) (P173928) | ||
Pacific Women's Energy Employment and Empowerment Program (PWEEEP) (P179022) | 2.75 | East Asia Pacific |
Cabo Verde - Promoting Female Employment in the Energy Sector (P170236) | 0.5 | Cabo Verde |
| Saint Lucia Renewable Energy Sector Development Project (P161316) | 0.55 | Saint Lucia |
| Dominica Geothermal Risk Mitigation (P179845) | 0.25 | Dominica |
Eligible countries by program:
Program | Africa | East Asia and Pacific | Latin America and Caribbean | South Asia |
ET | South Africa | Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam | ----- | India, Pakistan |
RE-SIDS | Cabo Verde, Mauritius | Fiji, Vanuatu | Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Maldives |
FAL | ----- | Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam | Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru | ----- |
GE-SIDS | Cabo Verde, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, and Sao Tome and Principe | Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu | Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname | Maldives |
This facility is supported by the Government of Canada. It aligns with Canada’s climate policy and gender equality priorities and complements its ongoing cooperation with the Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership. Within the World Bank trust fund portfolio, the facility falls under the Climate Change Global Practice, with the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Energy Global Practice sharing operational oversight.
For media inquiries please contact: Zirra Banu, hbanu@worldbankgroup.org