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The Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) supports low-carbon entrepreneurs to get their businesses and projects ready for investment. It then connects them with the investors who can help them grow.
Funded by the UK Government, the CFA provides hands-on technical support and creates structured opportunities for entrepreneurs, developers, financiers, and public partners to work together to unlock climate finance where it is most needed.
As an urgent call for collective action in the face of the climate crisis, Mexico set new climate goals in 2025, raising its ambition by setting a cap on absolute carbon emissions on 404 MtCO2 by 2035.
Mexico has built key frameworks to enable climate-aligned finance, anchored by its Strategy to Mobilise Sustainable Finance, including the Sustainable Taxonomy, and Sustainability Information Disclosure Norms.
Solutions across climate-smart agriculture & livestock, forestry, renewable energy, buildings & industrial energy-efficiency, circular economy, and electromobility are growing and attracting varying levels of investment interest from banks, big corporations and private capital funds.
The CFA works with businesses and projects that are actively seeking finance and can meet the following criteria:
- Measurable climate impact: Designed to achieve measurable climate outcomes in terms of direct or facilitated greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Minimum ticket size: Have a minimum total financing need of at least USD3.5 million, with flexibility where sector dynamics, growth stage, or capital-structure needs justify a smaller raise.
- Stage of development: Project finance deals must have completed a full feasibility study (a technical and financial assessment confirming engineering design, costs, risks, and viability).
- Commercial model: Have a business model capable of generating attractive, risk-adjusted returns over time, although some element of blended or concessional capital may be required in early stages.
- Sectoral focus: Provide a solution within priority sectors, Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Energy, Construction, Industrial Manufacturing, Transport, and Circular Economy, with flexibility where other sectors demonstrate emissions reductions and no legal barriers.
- Responsible business conduct: Not engage in activities included in the CFA exclusion list (available as PDF by clicking ‘Apply to Join CFA’)
- Positive environmental and social outcomes: Propositions should either demonstrate positive environmental and social impacts or show a genuine commitment to meaningfully integrating gender equality, disability, and broader social inclusion, recognizing that some applicants may still be developing these elements.