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111European Investment BankEuropean Investment Bank 1 1
The London Green Fund (a JESSICA holding fund) established in late 2009 to invest in carbon reduction projects in line with the Climate Change component of the London Plan
Focused on energy efficiency, waste and decentralised energy as the “3 biggest carbon reduction opportunities for London”
Governed by representatives from the Greater London Authority, the Environmental Agency and the London Waste and Recycling Board. The Mayor’s environmental advisor sits on the Investment Board
Energy EfficiencyUrban Development
Fund
£35m
ERDF
London Green FundLondon Green Fund£100m*
Managed by EIB
London Waste &Recycling Board
London Development
Agency
£50m
Private finance
£50m £32m£18m
* The remaining £15m may, as an option, be invested in one or both UDFs in due course
Urban Projects Urban Projects
The London Green FundThe London Green Fund
Private finance
Waste Urban Development Fund
Equity type investment
Loan type investment
Low riskHigh risk
Min £50mMin £35m
Aiming to deliver outputs/impacts on job creation, tons of carbon saved, and minimum energy usage savings
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....the waste UDF will primarily finance, via equity or equity-type investment, the construction or expansion of:• Waste to energy/fuel facilities (excluding incineration)• Value added re-use, recycling or reprocessing facilities
The Waste UDF – Foresight Environmental FundThe Waste UDF – Foresight Environmental Fund
Bank lending
Project sponsors
Venture capital trusts
Pension funds/private investors
ERDF £18m
London Green FundLondon Green FundUDF: £70m
Pari pasu: £118m
Investment programme £204m
In line with the Mayor’s municipal waste strategy, and in close collaboration with the London Waste and Recycling Board…
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• As a provider of cheap debt, return expectations for the fund are low, but the private sector finance provider still makes a commercial return, and the fund manager the fund manager has a significant component of fees linked has a significant component of fees linked to maximising carbon reduction and energy to maximising carbon reduction and energy efficiency impactsefficiency impacts
InsulationBuilding management technologies
Cooling equipment Low carbon heating
• A GBP 100m Urban Development Fund, managed by Amber Infrastructure, with co-financing from Royal Bank of Scotland, blended with London Green Fund monies to provide cheap loan financing for retrofit and low carbon heating projects in local cheap loan financing for retrofit and low carbon heating projects in local authority, university, hospital, social housing and other public buildingsauthority, university, hospital, social housing and other public buildings.
The EE UDF – London Energy Efficiency FundThe EE UDF – London Energy Efficiency Fund
• EIB will be providing low cost funding EIB will be providing low cost funding to RBS to improve benefits to the public sector end users. The EIB managed ELENA ELENA facility facility is providing technical assistance for project preparation
Low cost financing in exchange for carbon reduction benefits
Leveraging other EIB products
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Contact Contact
JESSICA and Investment FundsEuropean Investment Bank
98-100 Bvd Konrad Adenauer, L-2950 Luxembourg
www.eib.org/jessica
Frank LeeHead of holding funds and advisory, Northern Europe
Tel: +352 43 79 83062Mob: + 352 621 459 249