📣 Publication du nouveau rapport de Cleantech for Europe : comment débloquer les capitaux privés pour nos cleantech ? 📣 Notre objectif est clair : le passage à l’échelle des #cleantech pour faire la #réindustrialisation verte 🏭🌱 L’engagement du secteur privé est indispensable pour y parvenir, et doit être couplé à l’élaboration de dispositifs publics dérisquant les technologies. Il nous faut aujourd’hui aller plus loin sur le financement de l’amorçage des cleantech, et surtout agir résolument pour accompagner les acteurs dans leur passage à l’échelle. Trop souvent, nos champions se retrouvent en difficulté à ce stade de développement, sans outil de financement adapté, alors qu’il s’agit d’une phase critique pour leur réussite. Libérer les capitaux privés pour nos cleantech signifie : 1️⃣ Etendre et massifier les garanties publiques pour dérisquer les technologies. 2️⃣ Approfondir les marchés de la dette privée, en complément de l’action des banques. 3️⃣ Réaliser l’Union de l’épargne et de l’investissement dans le cadre du Clean Industrial Deal pour fluidifier la coopération et les échanges de capitaux. Enfin, l’introduction de critères de #préférenceeuropéenne dans les commandes publiques et privées permettrait de sécuriser les débouchés commerciaux des cleantech et donc d’envoyer un signal positif aux investisseurs. Breakthrough Energy - European Climate Foundation - Bpifrance - Direction générale du Trésor (French Treasury) - Direction Générale des Entreprises - France Invest - France Industrie - Mouvement Impact France
📣 New Report: How to Unlock The Much Needed Private Capital to Scale European Cleantech? 📣 Europe’s cleantech champions (#CleanTechEU) are scaling up—but the capital isn’t following. At the startup phase, there is a strong need for more early-stage equity capital to help companies develop and commercialize their technologies. However, the more acute issue lies in the scale-up and growth phase, where securing both growth equity and debt financing remains a major challenge. Yet, Europe does not lack capital. With €37 trillion in wealth, the real issue is the ability and willingness of investors to seize opportunities and take risks. Cleantech scale-ups need larger pools of venture and growth equity, as well as debt providers ready to finance long-term industrial transformation. Without a robust financing ecosystem, promising cleantech companies struggle to scale and industrialize their solutions. What needs to change? 💰 We need more early-stage equity capital – European institutional investors, including insurers and pension funds, must be mobilized to allocate more capital toward venture capital and private equity, including dedicated cleantech vehicles. 🏦 Private debt markets must deepen to bridge the late-stage debt gap – We have to work on unlocking bank credit, which represents the overwhelming majority of debt finance in Europe. Alternatively, we need a deeper, more liquid private credit market to complement traditional bank financing and provide scale-up capital for cleantech firms. 🤝Public financial instruments must act as catalysts to channel private capital – Public financing instruments, such as counter-guarantees and blended finance, can play a critical role in de-risking cleantech investments and making them more attractive to private capital. 🔑 The Savings and Investment Union (#SIU) can only succeed if it aligns with the Clean Industrial Deal (#CID) to directly tackle these financing gaps. A fragmented approach will fail to create the deep, liquid capital markets necessary for cleantech to thrive. A coordinated strategy that mobilizes institutional capital, strengthens private credit markets, and expands public de-risking mechanisms is critical. Europe has the financial firepower. Now it must build the right financial infrastructure to drive the clean industrial transition. 📖 Read our latest report in the first comment below. Victor van Hoorn Dimitri Colin Julia Reinaud Tobias Lechtenfeld Peter Sweatman Maria Luís Albuquerque Stéphane Séjourné Wopke Hoekstra John Berrigan Kurt Vandenberghe Cristina Sofia Dias Han ten Broeke Elena Arveras Vincent Hurkens Arthur Corbin Lídia Pereira Thomas Pellerin-Carlin Pascal Canfin Aurore Lalucq Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Isabel Benjumea Benjumea Anouk van Brug Paschal Donohoe Declan Kelly