The GEF sees great potential in our partnership with the JuST Institute on financial inclusivity for climate and biodiversity impact. Together, and with an expanding network of microfinance partners, we are helping smallholder farmers strengthen their resilience to climate impacts through nature-based solutions.
The Just Sustainability Transitions (JuST) Institute
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We provide state-of-art methods, products, & services to mainstream investments & capacity building for the ones who need it most
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Green and climate finance have not yet reached sufficient volumes, and there remains a substantial gap in financing climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. Only a fraction of the public or private funds devoted to these areas actually reaches smallholders and rural communities. Consequently, the resulting improved resilience and positive biodiversity impacts remain challenging to prove.
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Adaptation is vital to ensure inclusion and financial stability
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Underpins human economic activity, health, and food security
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There is no just environmental transition without inclusion
Mainstreaming just climate change mitigation for the most vulnerable through adaptation & biodiversity finance
Collaboration
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson at Global Environment Facility
Board member of the JuST Institute
Financial exclusion is one of the main causes of poverty in the world. As historical supporter of microfinance institutions, BNP Paribas has chosen to broaden its mandate by integrating inclusion, climate, and biodiversity dimensions.
JuST Institute is a first in the circle of global finance. I invite other actors in the sustainable and inclusive transitions to becoming a member of our board! Acting positively on agricultural value chains and their interactions with the provision of financial services is now urgent and essential.
Antoine Sire
Head of Company Engagement, BNP Paribas Executive Commitee member
Board member of the JuST Institute
By joining the JuST Institute, we at FS Impact Finance aim to strengthen our positive impact on biodiversity and contribute to a sustainable transition through inclusive finance. We are excited about this cooperation and look forward to developing new business ideas with existing and future JuST members. Together we can take concrete actions to provide inclusive solutions and mainstream the climate and biodiversity agenda.
Martin Cremer
Managing Director, FS Impact Finance
Board Member of the JuST Institute Initiative
The Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation is proud to have joined as a member of the JuST Institute. The Foundation is committed to promote entrepreneurship, especially among women, and to support smallholder farmers to meet the challenges of digital transformation and adaptation to climate change, through inclusive finance. We look forward to cooperating with JuST Institute and its existing and future members, to strengthen our biodiversity and climate adaptation knowledge and skills to better serve our partners.
Véronique Fajour
Managing Director, Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation
Board Member of the JuST Institute Initiative
For many years, ADA has helped inclusive finance professionals to develop green financial products in support of sustainable agricultural practices and clean energy. Our membership of the JuST Institute will enable us to benefit from the experience of other members and to share our knowledge. Together, we will be better able to make vulnerable communities more resilient to the effects of climate change and to protect biodiversity.
Laura Foschi
Executive Director of ADA
Board Member of the JuST Institute Initiative
VisionFund is proud to be part of the JuST Institute. In our work with clients facing extreme climatic events, our priority products and services build and protect their household resiliency. We’re committed to bold, innovative, financial inclusion of the most vulnerable. And JuST Institute is helping us grow the right strategy, policies, practices, products and funding to enable these people to protect themselves.
Edgar Martinez
President and CEO of VisionFund International
Board Member of the JuST Institute Initiative
Naturalis Biodiversity Center is proud to join the JuST Institute. We recognize that the health of natural capital is the foundation for human well-being and climate resilience. We will work with the JuST Institute to translate critical biodiversity science into robust operational strategies for inclusive finance. This collaboration will help guarantee that climate adaptation investments effectively protect both vulnerable communities and the vital natural systems they depend on.
Maaike van de Kamp-Romijn
Deputy Director General of Naturalis
Board Member of the JuST Institute Initiative
We take concrete actions to solve barriers and mainstream Climate, Biodiversity & Inclusive sustainability transitions
Key Barrier
Lack of Transparency
Climate, biodiversity, and exclusion risks, alongside existing or potential inclusive opportunities, are frequently not identified, managed, monitored, or disclosed.
Key Barrier
Lack of Capacity
Financial institutions and corporates lack the internal capacity and expertise to develop the products and services needed to finance climate, biodiversity, and inclusive practices.
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Lack of adapted products & services
Financial institutions and corporates often lack the specialized products and services required to finance and develop climate, biodiversity, and inclusive practices and technologies.
Our solution
Analysis & Certifications
We support the analysis of climate, biodiversity, and inclusivity practices, risk management processes, and portfolio content for Inclusive Financial Services Providers (IFSPs). Beyond analysis, we provide formal certification of the results.
This process reveals the actual volume and quality of green and inclusive technologies already financed, the growth potential of the portfolio, and the provider's overall capacity to manage related risks.
Our solution
Training & Capacity Building
We provide training and capacity building for the field officers and management of Inclusive Financial Services Providers (IFSPs). Our curriculum focuses on managing climate and biodiversity risks, while identifying and financing inclusive practices and technologies.
Beyond instruction, our services offer operational support through expert and peer coaching and an interactive platform to apply new skills to daily activities. We ensure long-term success through ongoing support for continuous improvement.
Our solution
Strategic & Operational Advisory
We accompany commercial banks, insurers, and inclusive finance investors to enhance their strategies and develop products that finance climate, biodiversity, and inclusive technologies. We ensure they can accurately price climate and biodiversity risks and impacts.
For international and public agencies, we support the integration of climate adaptation and biodiversity into projects, while fostering engagement with the private sector. We provide rigorous program execution and quality control.
Finally, we support corporates to strengthen their value chains and develop a suite of products and goods that are climate-positive, biodiversity-focused, inclusive, and financeable.
Our solutions are based on key supporting activities
Actionable Data & Standards
We empower our members and the sector to transform data into actionable insights across climate, biodiversity, and inclusion. By leveraging international standards and deep field expertise, we drive the adoption of common frameworks that integrate seamlessly into daily operations.
Mainstreaming successful methodologies
We incubate and support to scale up proven methodologies beyond programmes’ life and institutionalize them for the private and public sector. We assess, enhance and keep on updated proven methodologies, we generate capacity and ensure quality for their implementation. We include these lessons learnt in the framework we promote within our operations, with members, and throughout the financial value chain.
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Small scale farmers & Rural communities
Rural value chains, Off-takers,
Small Medium Enterprises
Enablers
Inclusive Financial Services Providers
Sustainable Finance Value Chains
2nd Tier Lenders
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Our catalytical projects aim to transform the financial sector from the bottom up. Learn more about our specific products below!
Portfolio Certification for Climate Change Adaptation
The project: "Certification of Climate Change Adaptation Portfolios of Inclusive Financial Service Providers for Scaling up Adaptation Finance for Smallholder Farmers (“CCA Certificates 4 IFSPs”)", aims to develop and pilot usable standards, certifications schemes, to then scale it up to all sector and regions.
Financial Products Targeting Climate Change Adaptation
The project "Indicators and Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity conservation finance for Smallholders and Rural communities: leveraging private and public finance", aims to develop and pilot key performance indicators and dedicated financial products to finance climate change adaption for smallholder farmers, to then scale it up to all sector and regions.
Climate, Biodiversity & Inclusive finance training
We provide ongoing online training to field officers and management of Inclusive Financial Service Providers to Identify, Manage and Find Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity Risks and Opportunities. Building on the successful experience of MEbA Biodiversity we enhance the training methodology and align it with the JuST Institute framework.
Members & Partners
At the JuST Institute we believe that the only climate & environmental transition is a just transition, and we work to make it happen. We act and move first, but we need you to improve, mainstream and co-build just sustainability transitions. It’s time to join!
Davide Forcella
Director of the JuST Institute
The JuST institute offers the opportunity to co-invest in developing & commercializing the tools needed to generate members and sector impact.
Beyond the members, the JuST Institute has a full ecosystem of institutions and individuals, join us!
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