SEED Practitioner Labs for Climate Finance aim to deliver financing solutions to climate-smart innovation for green economies.
SEED Practitioner Labs for Climate Finance invite leading investors, banks, development finance institutions, foundations, governments, innovators and intermediaries to jointly address major financing challenges that face small and medium-sized eco-inclusive enterprises and climate-smart infrastructure investment in developing and emerging economies. Lab participants are empowered to turn challenges into solutions as they develop tangible and robust prototypes that innovate the next generation of climate finance products.
The labs are hands-on and engage participants in output-oriented exchanges which facilitate peer learning between participants from different organisations, countries and sectors, strengthen the product implementation capacity of lab participants and build a network of partners to launch the climate finance products.
How does the SEED Labs process work?
During the SEED Practitioner Labs for Climate Finance process, practitioners pool their expertise to prototype financial products which drive investment in climate-smart solutions and improve climate resilience, refine these prototypes and mobilise partnerships to successfully launch the climate finance prototypes in target markets. Practitioners are organised throughout the process into smaller product development groups of five to ten participants who lead prototype design, refinement and implementation. The product development groups offer a close-knit forum for face-to-face and digital knowledge exchange between participating practitioners.
Who is selected to participate in the SEED Labs?
Participants in the SEED Practitioner Labs for Climate Finance are selected from a wide variety of organisations including microfinance institutions, commercial banks, development finance institutions, impact investors, philanthropic institutions, NGOs with a strong finance focus, corporate social investors, venture capital and angel investors, government authorities.
Discover the major challenges and climate-smart finance solutions developed through the SEED Practitioner Labs for Climate Finance by exploring country-specific climate finance product prototype outcome reports.