PandanGreen – 

Pandan Green (Pandan) is an emerging initiative launched by experienced climate, financial markets and inclusion professionals aimed at bringing large scale private sector climate finance to vulnerable communities in developing countries worst hit by climate change.

It has been competitively selected by the International Climate Finance Accelerator Luxembourg (ICFA) 2020 Spring Cohort.

As climate change takes hold across the developing world, resulting in increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events with adverse repercussions for agriculture, food and energy security and water availability, vulnerable communities, including women, are among the most-exposed groups, and increasingly seek to adapt to these changes and increase their resilience to safeguard their livelihoods.

Pandan works through financial institutions that reach the most vulnerable communities in selected developing, least-developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS) in the Asia-Pacific region.

It facilitates green lending to financial intermediaries that on-lend to end-borrowers such as smallholder farmers, agricultural cooperatives, communities, household or micro enterprises, for their investments in climate-smart technologies, services and business models reflected in countries’ National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and national priorities.

Pandan is fully aligned with the recent EU Regulation on sustainability related disclosures in the financial services sector (Disclosure Regulation or SFDR), the EU taxonomy on sustainable finance, and the International Capital Markets Association Green and Social Bond Principles and June 2021 Sustainability Bond Guidelines. Supporting its core team, Pandan is advised by a highly qualified, advisory board which includes experts on gender, social equity, financial markets and financial inclusion.