🌍 Uniting for Climate Action at COP29: Advancing Low Carbon Futures with CFA Türkiye 🌍
As the world convenes at COP29, the urgency for mitigation and adaptation measures has never been clearer. In line with the global pursuit to limit warming to 1.5°C, the Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA)—a UK government-funded initiative—stands as a beacon of transformation. Operating in 10 countries, including Türkiye, CFA is a global technical assistance program empowering projects to access finance, scale innovations, and drive low-carbon transitions.
🔥 Türkiye’s 4-Year Impact: 32 CFA Projects Selected! 🔥
For four consecutive years, 32 transformative low-carbon projects in Türkiye have been selected for CFA services, with a strong emphasis on clean energy startups, investor access, and a special focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). These projects are pioneering pathways to address climate challenges while unlocking co-benefits such as poverty reduction, enhanced gender equity, and biodiversity conservation.
Key Contributions of CFA Türkiye:
✅ Capacity Building: Enabling project developers to structure bankable projects, gain investor confidence, and benchmark against global best practices.
✅ Investor Access: Bridging the gap between projects and financiers, ensuring alignment with national and international concessional funding.
✅ Network Building: Strengthening connections across the climate finance ecosystem with policymakers, researchers, and investors.
✅ Achieving Low Carbon Goals: Supporting projects to align with local and national climate ambitions while integrating social impact and gender equity.
🌟 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion at the Forefront 🌟
CFA's work ensures that climate action is inclusive, addressing systemic inequalities and empowering women and underrepresented groups to lead in the green economy.
As the COP29 dialogue unfolds, we must emphasize collaboration and innovation. The solutions lie in unlocking finance, scaling clean energy startups, and ensuring no one is left behind in the green transition.
Let’s make the future sustainable, inclusive, and equitable.
#COP29 #ClimateFinance #CFA #LowCarbon #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #GenderEquality #SocialInclusion #ClimateAction #GreenEconomy #Türkiye PwC Türkiye Artyom Sitnikov Ayca Şahin Özgün Gökçeoğlu Rebecca Osmaston
We've made a video to share some of the highlights of the last few years of the CFA programme 😀. We hope you enjoy watching it! If you've been part of the CFA or attended one of our events you might even spot yourself or your business.
A big shout our to all of our delivery partners and the British Embassies and High Commissions in the ten countries where we operate - your expertise and local knowledge has shaped the CFA for the better in each country. Libélula, NTT DATA Europe & Latam, PwC Colombia, E3 - Ecología, Economía y Ética, GreenCape, National Business Initiative, DAI, PwC Vietnam, Adam Smith International, Flat6Labs, Bethel Advisors, PwC Türkiye, UK in Viet Nam, British High Commission in Pakistan, UK in Uganda, British Embassy Türkiye, UK in South Africa, British Embassy Mexico City, British Embassy in Colombia, Embajada Británica Lima.
Thank you to Vox Pops International for actually making the video 📹
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ricardo plc #climatefinance
Wetility, Aila Energy, BSF Breeding, Dat Bike, Biotrend Enerji, Werover, Daewoo Pakistan Express Bus Service LTD, Textil del Valle, COMVIVE Desarrollos, Everlectric, SOURCE Global, Shams Power Limited, Hatko Sound Barriers, Unergy, Evreka, Optima Energyía, Ben Constable Maxwell, Dorothy Kyomuhangi, Gareth Bayley, Ruben Cors, Ikenna Oguguo, Hülya Ö.