Climate Finance Specialist

Kathmandu

Organization: ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Location: Kathmandu
Grade: Mid level - Mid level
Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- Banking and Finance
- Environment
- Meteorology, Geology and Geography
- Climate Change
Closing Date: Closed

Position Overview:

The Climate Finance Specialist will lead ICIMOD’s work that aims to leverage and attract climate-resilient and green investment into the HKH. The role will require engaging with international funders, including the global climate and environment funds, regional and global finance institutions, multiple public and private-sector partners, including other knowledge partners working in this space. The role should also look beyond traditional sources of finance, towards private investment, whether through innovative public-private mechanisms, capacity building, or other approaches or instruments.

This role will require working across and capitalising on synergies with other areas of work within ICIMOD and with partners outside ICIMOD. It means leading what ICIMOD defines as the Intervention on Investment – part of which is funded under UK FCDO’s Himalayan Enabling Resilience Programme, funded under the high-profile Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA) programme, which requires working across UNDP, as well as World Bank, ADB and the UK Met Office, who are also CARA partners.

Background

About ICIMOD

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region stretches 3,500km across Asia, spanning eight countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Encompassing high-altitude mountain ranges, mid-hills, and plains, the zone is vital for the food, water and energy security of up to two billion people and is a habitat for countless irreplaceable species. It is also acutely fragile – and frontline to the impacts of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal, is an international organisation established in 1983, that is working to make this critical region greener, more inclusive and climate resilient. For more information, read our and explore our .

About our approach to climate and green finance

Identifying new climate and development finance flows has been identified by the HKH countries as an important priority, given the dearth of green investment and the enormous financing gap for climate adaptation, mitigation and nature. And, without new and additional finance, HKH countries will not be able to meet their climate adaptation, biodiversity and mitigation goals.

Enabling climate resilient and green investment forms a pillar of ICIMOD’s Strategy 2030. ICIMOD, as a regional institution, intends to draw on its convening power and knowledge to enable and help catalyse investment via several possible pathways, including: (i) identifying and developing solutions and collectively developing these into business cases, (ii) playing a role in assisting HKH countries access global funds (iii) facilitating investment in the private sector, or through public-private partnerships, and (iv) convening investors and investment experts to explore innovative ways to finance solutions and focus the investment conversation on HKH mountain priorities. ICIMOD also plays a role in advocating for HKH priorities in global and regional policy and investment fora.