Climate Investor One is the inaugural financing facility launched by Climate Fund Managers (CFM), and incubated and developed within the auspices of the Global Lab. It is the first of an intended series of climate finance initiatives designed to combat the detrimental effects of unmitigated climate change.
CIO will provide expertise, technology & financing to renewable energy projects in developing & emerging markets by mobilizing private sector financing at scale supported by catalytic public sector donor funding. CIO builds on the significant energy infrastructure expertise and track record of its sponsors: FMO, the Dutch development bank, and Phoenix InfraWorks, South African infrastructure development and fund management specialists, in association with Sanlam Investments Holdings.