Understanding the Climate Finance Accelerator South Africa

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) directly responds to the urgency and scale of the climate crisis by supporting highly promising climate projects to become more bankable and appealing to investors, so that they can secure funding more readily. The CFA is part of the UK Government’s efforts to help South Africa tackle climate change and support a just transition.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>This episode is presented in partnership with</strong> <a href= "https://www.greencape.co.za/"><span class= "s1"><strong>GreenCape,</strong></span></a> <strong>in collaboration with the <a class="" href= "https://www.freiheit.org/">Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom</a><br /> Read the CFA press release</strong> <a href= "https://www.green-cape.co.za/content/climate-finance-accelerator-south-africa-first-cohort-of-projects-announced/"> <span class="s1"><strong>here</strong></span></a><strong><br /> <br /></strong><span class="s1"><strong>Listen or watch to understand:</strong></span></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Guests in this conversation: Ian Callaghan, Originator of the Climate Finance Accelerator, Mike Mulcahy, Chief Executive Officer of GreenCape and John Gibss, Infrastructure Finance Advisor to the Climate Finance Accelerator.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What the CFA is, how it came about and what it will do.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why is it so hard for low carbon projects to find suitable investments.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How the CFA understands the climate finance landscape in each country it operates in (Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Turkey).</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How GreenCape reacted when they heard about the CFA and how it can help in South Africa.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li> <li class="li2"><s