The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA)

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) accelerates priority initiatives toward a Climate-Smart Zone, delivering resilience, social development, and broad-based economic growth for the Caribbean. The CCSA raises awareness and ensures that the Caribbean’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) receive assistance to become more resilient.

The CCSA's central objective is to help transform the region’s economy by fast-tracking sound public and private investment opportunities that support climate action and economic growth through sustainable development.

Drawing on the deep experience of Caribbean nations and institutions, a group of twenty-seven visionary Caribbean Governments, alongside some of the largest global companies, financial institutions, and foundations have joined the Accelerator to make the Caribbean a beacon of climate-smart development.

The CCSA approach includes the following:

• Convening and creating economies of scale to strengthen the ability of projects to attract resources and best practice
• Structuring, implementing, and fundraising for blended financial facilities to deliver new sources of capital and increase funding available for climate action across the region
• Applying innovation to the most difficult-to-solve challenges, working with technology developers and through collaboration with other accelerators
• Engaging the private sector to execute through cross-sector partnerships and other mechanisms, further enabling national governments to focus on policy development