P4G Contact:
Kate Danielsen, Communications Specialist
kate.danielsen@p4gpartnerships.org
The opportunity for climate action is clear: last year, New Climate Economy reported that cleaner, climate-smart growth
could deliver over USD 26 trillion in economic benefits through 2030, as compared to business-as-usual. With this
potential as a driving factor, P4G partnerships make innovative solutions for social and environmental progress possible.
By bringing together a network of visionary leaders in government, business and civil society, the P4G Initiative enables
these solutions to duplicate and scale in economies and geographies across the world.
In 2018, P4G’s first year, the Initiative funded 11 start-up partnerships – some of which are beginning to report on their
progress, with good results. Their diverse approaches to a greener economy – including models for reducing food loss
and waste in Indonesia; impact investing for renewable energy access in Kenya; and a marketplace for the re-use of
industrial materials in Vietnam – have played a crucial role in creating engaged networks around thematic areas that
P4G’s 2019 start-up partnerships bring to the fore.
The 2019 P4G Start-up Partnerships are clustered in areas such as clean energy access finance models, minimizing food
loss and waste, a sustainable plastics economy and zero- or low- emissions transportation. Across the SDGs, P4G funded
two projects each for SDG 2 in food and agriculture, SDG 11 in sustainable cities and SDG 12 in responsible consumption
and production; three in SDG 6 for clean water and sanitation; and four for SDG 7 in affordable and clean energy. Many
of the projects are also based in P4G partner countries—including Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico and Vietnam.
P4G Global Director Ian de Cruz commented, “We are pleased with how these partnerships build on the early successes
we have seen with our 2018 start-up partnerships. Beyond their potential to implement and scale, many of these
projects could become the P4G Scale-up Partnerships of tomorrow. Now in our second year, we have nearly three dozen
partnerships underway in developing countries, creating a learning laboratory of sustainable solutions to drive inclusive
growth, implement sustainable development goals and act on climate change. We look forward to working with these
partnerships both individually and collectively, using the emerging partnership themes to build strong networks of keen
investors, business leaders and government changemakers for a more sustainable, inclusive future.”
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Partners: World Wide Fund for Nature - Kenya (WWF-Kenya) and M-PAYG
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In Vietnam, nearly 5 million tons of plastic ends up in landfills annually. Too often, plastic bottles, straws, bags and other
wrappings pollute the rivers and oceans, threatening the environment and the world’s supply of fresh fish. The
partnership will gain commitments from large consumer product companies to use recycled plastic, known as post-
consumer resin, in their packaging materials and products. Additionally, it will prepare a business plan for building a
state-of-the-art plastics recycling factory in Vietnam within a two-year time frame.
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About P4G
P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – has funded 31 public-private partnerships with
projects in developing countries. These include 18 start-up and scale-up partnerships from 2018 and 13 start-up
partnerships from 2019. For example, these partnerships pose solutions that accelerate the adoption of electric buses in
Latin America, expand the supply of renewable energy in Sub-Sahara Africa, reduce food loss and waste in Indonesia and
reduce plastic and packaging waste from e-commerce in China. P4G is a collaborative partnership among nine partner
countries: Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam. In
addition, C40, World Economic Forum, Global Green Growth Institute, IFC and World Resources Institute, which hosts
P4G’s global hub, are partner organizations to P4G.