Public sector

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We advise cities, municipalities, ministries and public authorities, as well as development organisations such as GIZ and public development banks, on building effective climate and sustainability strategies. That ranges from the question of how a project becomes eligible for funding to the evidence of what it actually achieved, in Germany and internationally.

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What is particular about the public sector

 

Publicly owned companies and holdings, municipal utilities or municipal housing companies for instance, may themselves fall under the CSRD or the EU Taxonomy, depending on their size. At the same time, lending banks increasingly ask public bodies for sustainability data, for example in the context of municipal loans or infrastructure finance. This dual role is worth clarifying early. Knowing whether you report yourself, and what data others will ask you for, avoids doing the same work twice.

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Public development banks sit structurally between a public mandate and banking regulation. As public institutions with a promotional mandate they are partners in designing financing mechanisms, of the kind other public bodies need as well. As credit institutions they are at the same time subject to the same rules as any other bank, including taxonomy KPIs, PCAF accounting for financed emissions and the EBA Guidelines on the management of ESG risks.

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Our topics for the public sector

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• Impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation: Indicator systems and monitoring frameworks that evidence the actual impact of climate and sustainability projects, from the theory of change through to ongoing performance tracking. Particularly relevant for development organisations and grant-funded projects, where funders expect impact to be demonstrated rather than asserted.

• Access to international climate finance: Preparing projects for international climate funds and EU funding programmes, from putting the application together to the question of whether a project genuinely meets the relevant eligibility criteria.

• Financing mechanisms: Designing mechanisms for climate and sustainability projects, from blending public funding with private co-finance through to international climate finance instruments for developing and emerging economies.

• Project design and appraisal: Supporting publicly funded and international climate projects from design through application to performance review, for domestic projects as much as on behalf of development organisations.

• Reporting obligations of public companies: Assessment and implementation where a holding falls under the CSRD or the taxonomy in its own right. → CSRD, EU Taxonomy

• Regulation for development banks: ESG risk plan, financed emissions and taxonomy KPIs in an institutional context. → Financial sector
   

How we work

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• Establishing your role: We first clarify whether you report yourself, what data others will ask you for and which requirements come out of the funding relationship. Only then do we go into depth.

• Theory of change before indicators: We first define what a project is meant to achieve and derive the metrics from that. It avoids indicators that are dutifully collected but evidence nothing.

• Workshops and training: We show your team in practical terms how to evidence impact and how to prepare projects so that they qualify for funding.

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Contact us

 

Whether it is impact measurement, access to climate finance or project support, we will work out with you where you stand and which step makes sense next.