Quantified Ventures’ Green Bank and Climate Resilience work revolves around two simple ideas:
Investing in environmental infrastructure is investing in climate.
The influx of climate funding should be leveraged in tandem with green banks to maximize benefits.
Our team works with green banks, state resilience offices, public financing agencies, and other similar organizations to drive investment into environmental infrastructure – with a focus on clean water, climate-smart agriculture, and sustainable land use.
We help our partners identify investable pipelines of environmental infrastructure projects and structure financing programs that flow capital into projects most effectively. This process requires community engagement, identifying project outcomes, financial analysis, and evaluating additional funding sources. Our goal is to create an ecosystem through which any community can access low-cost capital to implement the most important local climate resilience projects.
Services
Establish Green Bank lending authority and operating procedures
Design programs, including eligible project types, market assessment, partnership development, and impact metrics
Develop pipelines, engage stakeholders, evalution of projects and modeling of outcomes
Financing and financial analysis for projects, including evaluation / augmentation of funding sources
Representative Partnerships and Projects
Green Banks and Equitable Water Infrastructure
The Walton Family Foundation has awarded $775,000 to a strategic partnership between QV and PRE Collective to accelerate investments in nature-based climate and water solutions in the Colorado River and Mississippi River Basins. The partnership will provide grants and technical assistance to three Green Banks – the Illinois Finance Authority, Finance New Orleans, and the Collective Clean Energy Fund (formerly Colorado Clean Energy Fund) – to build a pipeline of scalable nature-based projects with measurable greenhouse gas reduction benefits (e.g., sustainable agriculture, green stormwater infrastructure, and watershed restoration).
A strategic collaboration between the Coalition for Green Capital and Quantified Ventures received a $1 million investment from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, capitalize, and scale equitable water infrastructure. As part of this work, CGC and QV are selecting 6 existing green banks to receive ~$50,000 each in grant funding and technical assistance to build a pipeline of clean and equitable water infrastructure projects that will directly benefit disadvantaged communities.
5 Ways FEMA and States Can Leverage Financial Tools to Build Resilience
This report, commissioned by the Environmental Defense Fund, evaluates best practices from State Revolving Funds to support market- and nature-based approaches to flood risk reduction and water quality improvement. These best practices are applicable to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) because the Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation (STORM) Act authorizes FEMA to establish hazard mitigation revolving funds to reduce risks from disaster, natural hazards, and other related environmental harm.
Connecticut Green Bank Expands into Environmental Infrastructure Financing
In 2021, the state of Connecticut expanded the scope of the Connecticut Green Bank (CGB). Under its new charter, the CGB is empowered to finance improvement projects related to water, agriculture, climate adaptation and resilience, land conservation, waste and recycling, and parks and recreation, in addition to its original mandate of projects focused on residential solar and energy efficiency. QV partnered with CGB to facilitate this transition.
Client Testimonials
“We’ve worked with Quantified Ventures on an impact bond to finance climate resilience and infrastructure investments in New Orleans. We’re re-imaging our mission and operations to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. We need to finance an enterprise that makes a series of community-centered climate infrastructure and resilience investments over a long period of time. QV has been an integral partner for us in working through the jigsaw puzzle of funding and financing these investments.”
“The Climate Access Fund developed a replicable financing model for a community solar project located on the rooftop of a school in a lower-income, underserved community in East Baltimore, MD, which we intend to replicate. Quantified Ventures helped us craft a plan to apply our model to multiple sites, thus using our public and philanthropic resources to leverage private capital for the benefit of low-income communities across the state and beyond. Their work product is right on target, delivered in a timely fashion, and by terrific people.”
Contact Us
For more information about our Green Bank and Climate Resilience solutions, contact:
Matthew Carney
carney@quantifiedventures.com