PISTA: Platform for Investment Support and Technical Assistance

Overview

The Platform for Investment Support and Technical Assistance (PISTA) aims to identify projects that help developing economies in their decarbonisation efforts and in their transition to climate-resilient economies, catalysing finance from national and international instruments.

Objectives

PISTA has two overarching goals:

To catalyse resources towards impactful initiatives by leveraging public resources to attract additional funds. This responds to a growing need from developing economies to develop proposals that are bankable and can unlock private capital at scale towards the SDGs
To accelerate green investment by building the investment ecosystem to attract finance in the future.

Focus areas

Initiatives that target climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation in the
areas of:

UNDP Rome Centre Sustainable Energy Focus Areas Environment

UNDP Rome Centre Sustainable Energy Focus Areas Clean Energy

Available support

Initiatives that target climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation in the
areas of:

UNDP Rome Centre Climate Finance Approach 1

Upstream

Interventions that support policy- and regulatory-level capacity building aligned with national development needs, national strategies and policy priorities

UNDP Rome Centre Climate Finance Approach 2

Midstream

Interventions that support the de-risking of projects to make them bankable and ready for investment, for example by enhancing the technical & operational capacity and bolstering strategic planning & financing

UNDP Rome Centre Climate Finance Approach 3

Downstream

Interventions that support mobilization of finance by building connections with investors and, if needed, structuring blended financial transactions that mitigate financial risks

Connect with us

Via email at: pista@undp.org

The Platform for Investment Support and Technical Assistance (PISTA) was established by the UNDP Rome Centre for Climate and Energy with the support of the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security.