Catalysing capital

Unlocking pathways to investments

We collaborate with public and private sectors to catalyse capital for greater impact

An estimated US$2.1 trillion is needed by 2040 to eliminate plastic leakage into the environment and adequately bolster downstream capabilities to cope with rising waste volumes. The scale of development capital needed is only possible through collaboration at a global scale. No single organisation can make meaningful progress alone.

The Alliance’s unique role in convening key stakeholders, providing concessional capital and offering technical advice is key to fostering a collaborative ecosystem that helps address this challenge.

Financing innovation to accelerate the transition towards a circular economy

Providing concessional capital to unlock catalytic financing

We provide concessional capital that helps de-risk projects, enabling projects to attract external growth capital. We create conditions that allow our project partners to tap into diverse impact funding sources to mobilise more capital into critical initiatives, fostering market development and ecosystem growth that accelerate the transition towards a circular economy for plastic. We participate in co-designing innovative climate finance instruments that traditional financing instruments find challenging.

Enabling ecosystem growth for plastic circularity

We foster technology incubators, research and development, and growth capital for innovative materials as well as reuse and redesign models including digital enablers.

Green infrastructure financing

Addressing plastic waste in the environment is key to climate mitigation. Innovative green financing solutions such as blended finance and results-based blended finance options are necessary to provide capital for these critical initiatives. We collaborate with Development Finance Institutions, institutional capital and other impact capital pools to co-design and participate in financing instruments and funding vehicles to accelerate the transition towards circular solutions that are economically viable.

Providing growth capital to innovation focused on driving transition to a circular economy for plastic

Launched in partnership with Lombard Odier Investment Managers, the Plastic Circularity Fund is a growth-focused private equity impact fund that identifies unique opportunities across the three key pillars where funding is needed:
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i) Innovative materials
ii) Reuse and redesign models including digital enablers
ii) Advanced sorting and recycling technologies

The fund adopts robust impact reporting principles that help ensure it can balance its dual mandate of delivering on sustainability goals while producing attractive risk-adjusted returns that proves that the transition to a circular economy for plastic is a viable solution. The fund has started deploying capital into scalable opportunities.

Connecting capital for scaling

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Plastic Waste Reduction Bond selects two projects from the Alliance’s portfolio.

The Alliance’s early-stage support helped ASASE Foundation and Greencore demonstrate their viability and lower financial risks, enabling the projects to scale. Both were selected as recipients of the World Bank /IBRD Plastic waste Reduction Bond issuance.

Unlocking catalytic capital by fostering collaboration between the private sector and Development Finance Institutions

PT ALBA Tridi Plastics Recycling Limited, a joint venture between Alba Asia and PT Dhara Daya Sustainea, secured a significant blue loan from the Asian Development bank (ABD) despite challenges with limited credit history and equity gaps. A US$4 million concessional loan from the Alliance helped the venture meet its equity requirements to unlock a US$44.9 million loan. This blended finance approach secured access to the capital required for its scaling.

“The Alliance saw our potential to make a real impact in Indonesia and stepped in with a concessional loan when traditional financing institutions would not.”

Dian Kurniawati, Founding Partner
PT Dhara Daya Sustainea

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