ALTÉRRA, a climate-focused investment manager headquartered in Abu Dhabi, and FinDev Canada, Canada’s development finance institution, have announced a strategic partnership, signed on the sidelines of the Canada Investment Summit, to mobilise capital at scale for climate investment across emerging and developing markets. The collaboration reflects a shared ambition to accelerate the global climate transition and expand climate investments in underserved markets through innovative and scalable financing solutions.
Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ALTÉRRA and FinDev Canada will explore potential collaboration across co-financings and investments, funds, platforms and blended finance structures that support decarbonisation and climate-resilience in emerging markets. By combining ALTERRA’s climate investment experience with FinDev Canada’s development finance experience, the partnership aims to identify and scale potential investment opportunities that deliver measurable climate impact while working to mobilise institutional and catalytic investors at greater scale.
ALTÉRRA and FinDev Canada will focus on opportunities across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa, with an emphasis on supporting climate investments. Areas of interest span clean energy, grids and storage, sustainable transport, water, resilient infrastructure and climate-smart agriculture. The partnership will also explore how catalytic and commercial capital can be combined to unlock new investment opportunities and create scalable models that can be replicated across markets.
ALTÉRRA was established to transform how and where the world invests in climate solutions, delivering climate impact and commercial returns across developed and emerging markets. In growth markets, it advances this mandate through co-investments and pioneered first-of-their-kind strategies with Brookfield and TPG, deploying catalytic capital to enable broader institutional participation.
His Excellency Majid Al Suwaidi, CEO of ALTÉRRA, said: “Emerging and developing markets will be central to the global climate transition and represent one of the greatest investment opportunities of our time. According to ALTÉRRA’s latest Impact Report, 37 per cent of climate investment opportunities are already considered investable or near-investable, underscoring the scale of the opportunity that exists today. Bridging the remaining investment gap requires strong partnerships, innovative financing, and a shared commitment to mobilising private capital at scale. Together with FinDev Canada, we aim to expand the pipeline of investable climate opportunities and accelerate capital into high-potential markets, drawing on Canada's strength in infrastructure investing and development finance to help deliver both economic and climate outcomes.”
Lori Kerr, CEO of FinDev Canada, said: “The climate transition will not be achieved in developed markets alone. Emerging markets offer extraordinary opportunities to strengthen resilience, advance sustainable growth, and create more prosperous economies, yet investment remains far below what is needed. By bringing together our complementary investment experience, networks, and climate finance capabilities, ALTERRA and FinDev Canada aim to turn promising climate opportunities into investable realities and demonstrate models that can be replicated across markets. Our ambition is to unlock larger flows of private capital and accelerate climate action and economic opportunity where they are needed most.”
Beyond investment collaboration, the two institutions will also pursue joint knowledge sharing and thought leadership initiatives that can strengthen the climate finance ecosystem, improve market understanding and help create the conditions for greater private-sector participation in climate solutions globally.
