- Accreditation enables Climate Fund Managers to directly access resources from the world’s largest dedicated climate fund
- Strengthens Climate Fund Managers’ ability to mobilise public and private capital for climate solutions in emerging markets
- Covers the Green Climate Fund’s highest accreditation category, including projects and programmes above USD 250 million and Category A environmental and social risk
The Hague, 1 July 2026: Climate Fund Managers has been accredited by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), strengthening its ability to mobilise concessional and private capital for climate solutions in emerging markets. The accreditation was approved by the GCF Board during its 45th Board meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
GCF is the world’s largest dedicated climate fund, supporting developing countries to pursue low-emission and climate-resilient development. Through its network of Accredited Entities, GCF channels concessional capital into climate mitigation and adaptation programmes and helps mobilise additional public and private investment.
Climate Fund Managers is a climate-focused blended finance investment manager operating in emerging markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It currently has over USD 2.8 billion in assets under management and more than 50 active projects.
GCF is already an investor in two of Climate Fund Managers’ private equity funds, Climate Investor One and Climate Investor Two as well as its first private credit fund, the GAIA Climate Loan Fund. As a GCF Accredited Entity, Climate Fund Managers can now directly access GCF capital and develop funding proposals in its own right.
The accreditation scope allows Climate Fund Managers to programme in the Green Climate Fund’s highest size and environmental and social risk categories, enabling Climate Fund Managers to develop and manage projects and programmes above USD 250 million, including those involving the highest (Category A/I-1) environmental and social risk. It follows a rigorous assessment of Climate Fund Managers’ governance, fiduciary standards, environmental and social safeguards, risk management systems and institutional capacity.
Jim Brands, Head of Development Finance & Public Institutions at Climate Fund Managers, said: “We are proud to be welcomed as a GCF Accredited Entity. This accreditation enhances our ability to mobilise public and private capital for climate action and, ultimately, to accelerate the development and scaling of climate mitigation and adaptation projects in the countries and communities that need them most.”
Achala Abeysinghe, Director of the Green Climate Fund’s Department of Investment Services said:
“The accreditation of Climate Fund Managers B.V. by the Green Climate Fund creates new opportunities to mobilize climate finance at scale and support private sector investments that advance low-emission, climate-resilient development in developing countries. This reinforces GCF’s commitment to work with a diverse set of partners to unlock greater investment for climate action.”
The accreditation builds on Climate Fund Managers’ successful completion of the European Commission pillar assessment in 2025 and reflects the firm’s continued institutional development. With ten years’ operational track record across the global south and five blended finance vehicles under management, Climate Fund Managers is one of the world’s leaders in the development and implementation of blended climate impact investment.
About Green Climate Fund:
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s climate fund for developing countries, mobilising and delivering capital at scale, strengthening institutions and supporting transformative change, and bringing together our extensive partnership networks to deliver impact. GCF is mandated as the primary operating entity of the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement.
To fulfill its role in supporting global climate ambition, GCF is focused on delivering high-impact climate finance at scale, underpinned by a country-owned approach focused on system-wide change. The fund has over USD 20 billion committed across 134 developing countries through a wide range of adaptation and mitigation projects. www.greenclimate.fund
About Climate Fund Managers:
Climate Fund Managers is a climate-focused blended finance investment manager operating in emerging markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It raises and deploys blended climate finance funds, working in partnership to deliver climate solutions at scale and pace. With over USD 2.8 billion in assets under management and more than 50 active projects, it invests across key areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation, including renewable energy; energy transition and green hydrogen; water, waste and maritime; and sustainable cities and the built environment. Its private equity strategies include Climate Investor One, Climate Investor Two, Climate Investor Three and the Shariah-compliant Malaysia Climate Infrastructure Fund (MCIF), which broadens access to climate infrastructure investment for Islamic investors. It also offers a private credit strategy through the GAIA Climate Loan Fund. Its funds are supported by public and private sector organisations, with public capital deployed strategically to balance risk and mobilise private sector capital, enabling investment across the project lifecycle – from development to construction and operation. Established in 2015, Climate Fund Managers is a joint venture between the Dutch development bank FMO and Sanlam InfraWorks of the Sanlam Group in South Africa, with offices in The Hague, Cape Town, Singapore and Bogotá. www.climatefundmanagers.com
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Disclaimer
Climate Fund Managers is a manager of alternative investment funds and has obtained an AIFMD license from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM)) pursuant to section 2:65 of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht). Climate Fund Managers is included in the public register maintained by the AFM on its website under license number 15004367. Climate Fund Managers is the appointed fund manager of Climate Investor One, Climate Investor Two, Climate Investor Three and the GAIA Climate Loan Fund SCSp. The Construction Equity Funds of Climate Investor One and Climate Investor Two; the Climate Investor Three Fund and the GAIA Climate Loan Fund SCSp (société en commandite spéciale established under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) are registered Alternative Investment Funds with the AFM. SA-H2 Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd (“SAFM”) is an authorised financial services provider, licensed as a Category I and II (FSP 53719) in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, Act Number 37 of 2002 by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. The SA-H2 Fund is not at present a “financial product” as defined in terms of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act 2002. The SA-H2 Fund will not be a collective investment scheme as contemplated under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act 2002 (“CISCA”) and will therefore, not be approved in terms of CISCA.
