Investing catalytic capital to unlock climate projects and businesses in emerging economies
Who we are
ACP is a philanthropic investment organization seeking to catalyze the deployment of climate projects and businesses at scale across emerging economies, and deliver transformational impact.
The businesses and infrastructure built in emerging economies today will shape our collective climate future. These countries face the harshest impacts of climate change and could generate the majority of global emissions by 2050. Investing in their clean future is not only an urgent imperative – it is also an unprecedented opportunity to foster growth, development, and quality of life.
Emerging economies have vast renewable resources, bold entrepreneurs, and fast-growing demand. But capital is still not flowing at speed or scale.
ACP helps close that gap. We partner with investment firms with strong local presence to design and anchor funds that remove critical financing barriers in emerging markets.
The result: more capital, flowing faster, into the hands of entrepreneurs deploying climate solutions at scale — generating meaningful environmental, economic, and social impact across Southeast Asia, Africa, India, and Latin America.
Each ACP investment is expected to create positive impacts on vulnerable & at-risk communities – including improving access to clean and resilient infrastructure(e.g., energy, transport) and strengthening communities against climate risks.
What we do
ACP works alongside local partners to deeply understand each market and pinpoint the specific financing barriers that inhibit climate projects and businesses from launching and scaling.
We then architect and anchor local investment funds that are purpose-built to fill those gaps — deploying catalytic, junior equity, providing hands-on strategic support, and working alongside partners to crowd in additional investment at a significant multiplier.
The result: businesses that generate a pipeline of investable projects, accelerating clean deployment at speed and scale.
Filling the Early-State Deployment Gap
“The shortage of bankable projects is a critical, persistent challenge in emerging economies. ACP’s leadership in providing affordable innovative financing to early-stage climate projects and companies addresses the urgent need in the transition to net zero, acting as a pioneering market making catalyst for underserved sectors.”
— Damilola Ogunbiyi, UN Secretary General's Special Representative
and CEO for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)
Latest News
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Pentagreen Capital Green Investments Partnership programme size reaches US$800 million at second close
Pentagreen | 20 May 2026
Pentagreen Capital Fund Management Pte. Ltd., today announced the second close of the Green Investments Partnership (“GIP”), a flagship blended finance programme under Singapore’s Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P”), bringing the committed capital from US$510 million to US$800 million.
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IDB Invest Cultivates Caribbean Fund Managers to Mobilize Private Capital
IDB Invest | 12 December 2025
The Caribbean has the potential to become a dynamic hub for business and investment. With the right financial structures in place, the region’s vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems and untapped opportunities offer favorable conditions for sustainable growth. For this reason, IDB Invest has launched a program to cultivate homegrown fund managers that mobilize investment to drive development across the Caribbean...
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Clean energy equity investment in EMDEs must increase fourfold by 2035 for net zero
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) | 14 November 2025
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), with support from Allied Climate Partners and Three Cairns Group, and analytical support from Wood Mackenzie, released a new report, The Clean Energy Equity Investment Gap: Mobilizing private finance in emerging markets, revealing a growing shortfall in projected equity investment relative to the levels needed for EMDEs, excluding China (“EMDEs”) to align with global clean energy transition goals.
The Challenge:
Increasing the number of bankable climate-related projects and businesses in emerging economies
Case Study:
Early-stage project development equity funds
Infrastructure projects and businesses face the greatest risk at the earliest stages, particularly in emerging economies, where risk-tolerant capital is scarce. Accessing the funding entrepreneurs critically need for activities like feasibility studies, permitting, land acquisition, and arranging offtake is often extremely challenging. This gap constrains the pipeline of viable climate solutions that could be deployed.
ACP Focus Regions
How ACP addresses this challenge
ACP has architected and anchored local investment funds in Southeast Asia, Africa, India, and Latin America that focus on filling this early-stage gap.
Key elements of the approach include:
Ensuring investments promote jobs, green industrialization, inclusive growth, and shared prosperity in underserved communities
Providing anchor, junior equity to mitigate risk, crowd in co-investment at scale, and prove the commercial viability of new models
Recycling 100% of ACP’s proceeds into the next fund – creating a virtuous cycle of reinvestment
Supporting local investment managers in strategy, recruiting, impact, and governance
Empowering investment managers with strong local presence to deploy critical early-stage capital that unlocks a significant multiplier as projects advance toward bankability and financial close
This combination of capital, expertise, and global partnerships helps to unlock the power of local markets.
Incubated by Three Cairns Group, supported by global philanthropies
ACP operates as an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit incubated by Three Cairns Group, a philanthropic and investment firm that works with partners to strengthen the conditions climate solutions need to succeed. While ACP receives funding, staff support, and in-kind services from Three Cairns Group, it operates independently to drive meaningful environmental, social, and economic impact. Leading global philanthropies also support ACP, including Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Horizons, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Rainier Climate Foundation, Soros Economic Development Fund, Three Cairns Group, and Yield Giving.
Our Supporters Include
+ additional philanthropies and family offices