FOAK Forward: Scaling Climate Finance For Infrastructure - A Climate Week Event
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Join Eunoia Group for a Climate Week highlighting the role of tools, blueprints, and strategies in advancing first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects and overarching decarbonization goals.
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in focus on FOAK financing as a way to bridge the commercialization gap for innovative solutions. FOAK financing combines elements of infrastructure finance, project finance, and early-stage capital to create an effective strategy for scaling up solutions. This approach is further supported by policies like the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which align with these goals.
However, no single financing method can fully address this challenge on its own. Therefore, there is a unique opportunity to standardize tools and approaches for launching, structuring, and financing climate technology projects—especially as corporate equity funding dries up and venture capital investments in this phase of a technology’s lifecycle decline.
With both ready-to-deploy solutions and emerging technologies available, it’s clear that innovation is key to achieving decarbonization goals. This event will showcase the frameworks, tools, and strategies driving industry standards while highlighting the companies and operators successfully navigating their growth journeys.
About the organizers:
Eunoia Group is an investment and portfolio management advisory firm that uses proven tools in novel ways to help funders and founders map, derisk, and accelerate the pre-development and deployment of climate solutions. Our approach integrates data and analytics, innovative capital strategies, and shared insights and stories to power a new climate reality.
Through a multitude of roles and functions, KDC Earth fills the gap to help investors and companies maximize enterprise value or enable companies to meet their sustainability goals. Their team has permitted, engineered, developed, owned, and operated over $3.5 billion of infrastructure across multiple different industries including cogeneration, telecom and data, renewables, and closed loop infrastructure for over 40 years.