South Pole advises organisations across the private and public sector on developing and implementing initiatives that provide financing and technical assistance to projects and SMEs that deliver climate impact in clean energy, land use, cities and carbon removals.
The world is facing a climate finance gap. If we want to realise a net zero world, more than 10 times the current funding needs to be sourced and deployed than is being done today. Taking into account the limitations of public budgets, private investments have to be mobilised at scale to address the climate crisis.
South Pole Climate Investments removes the barriers to private investment and ensures that climate finance is invested for maximum impact.
We are here to help you, as company, government, non-profit or city to finance climate action at scale. Key services include climate finance vehicle design, project sourcing and evaluation, technical due diligence, setting up governance, impact and monitoring frameworks. In addition, our team also helps you to provide technical assistance to ensure bankabilit of low-carbon projects and infrastructure, and thereby unlock investments at scale, with a particular focus on cities.
We work in the following areas that we believe are critical for the transition to a net zero and climate-resilient world:
We do this by working with our clients and partners on:
South Pole helps impact funding by identifying and evaluating projects and startups that accelerate the transition towards net zero economies.
Mobilised more than US$10 billion in private investments for over 850 low-carbon projects, from land use to clean energy and sustainable cities, thereby contributing to a low-carbon and climate-resilient world
Worked for four vehicles providing US700M in finance and technical support to climate action projects
Supported 60 climate ventures that in total reduced more than 3m tCO2 in greenhouse emissions
Facilitated investment in city projects with US20M of finance enabled
Martin Stadelmann, Executive Director, Climate Investments at South Pole, is a climate finance expert with more than 15 years of experience in developing, implementing and evaluating climate action projects, programmes and funds in developing countries, with a focus on clean energy and adaptation to climate change.
His experience spans contributions to innovative mechanisms under the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, the Global Landscape of Climate Finance reports and the finance chapters of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and the UNEP Adaptation Gap report 2014. Until 2009, he managed climate action projects in developing countries at myclimate. From 2009 to 2018, he advised governments, development banks and climate funds on international climate finance and represented the Swiss government in international climate negotiations, in addition to advising other governments on the same matter. Martin initiated several innovative climate action funds and platforms, including the Landscape Resilience Fund and the City Finance Lab. He holds a PhD in political science, and a MSc in geography.
