New Horizons for Financing Clean Technologies
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Rainier Tower

Please join us at this informal reception and discussion on financing our sustainable future.  Learn about a new and potentially massive cleantech financing initiative from several of its international leaders, and help us explore how our region could participate and benefit from it.  There is no cost to attend but attendance is limited so please RSVP today.  Refreshments will be served

Warren Evans was a Senior Adviser at the Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank before retiring in 2012. He led the World Bank team responsible for the establishment of the Climate Investment Funds; expanding the World Bank carbon finance business from nearly $185 million to over $2.5 billion, including establishment of new funds for communities and natural resource management.  Prior to this, he was the Director of the Environment Department. Before joining the World Bank in 2003, Warren held technical and managerial positions at the Asian Development Bank, including Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards Division. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Warren Evans is now a member of the Board of Advisors of Hydrobee SPC, a startup company in Seattle and CleanTech Alliance member, which is producing a micro-turbine for renewable USB power generation.  Hydrobee founder and President Burt Hamner and Warren worked together in SE Asia promoting cleantech and financing for small business in the 1990s.

Christian Hauselmann is founder and manager of Swisscleantech and Director and co-founder of the Global Cleantech Cluster Alliance.  GCCA currently consists of 50 global clusters members, including CleanTech Alliance Washington, representing 10,000+ cleantech companies worldwide.  It has partnered with a new global organization of pension funds to create new ways to fund sustainable low-carbon technologies and companies.  The GCCA holds an annual “Top 30” contest for cleantech companies.   Hydrobee founder Burt Hamner was nominated by the Alliance and selected for this year’s Top 30 Award in Switzerland.

Warren, Christian and Burt have been working from different directions on a global initiative to match large pension funds with cleantech investment pools at local and regional levels.  Large institutional investors are now creating new cleantech investment funds.  The fund managers need good “deal flow” meaning quantity and quality of potential investments.  The global Cleaner Production / Cleantech Community knows thousands of cleantech companies seeking investment and can create “pipelines” bringing qualified companies to the attention of cleantech investors.  Partnerships between cleantech clusters and investors are already underway and will be featured at a Global Conference in November.

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