Hubert Jenny

Hubert Jenny is Senior Infrastructure Specialist with the Green Climate Fund in charge of Climate Change Adaptation in the Division of Mitigation and Adaptation. Hubert is assisting Accredited Entities globally to prepare funding proposals. He is leading the preparation of the Green Climate Fund’s Water Security Sectoral Guideline.

Hubert has mixed international experience in the private sector setting up Public-Private Partnerships for the delegation of urban services mostly in Asia. He worked in the last 20 years in operations with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Hubert graduated from France with a Master in Engineering and he is a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia.

Driving innovation that mitigates climate change and social impacts to “build back better” infrastructures and services. He led multi-cultural businesses and project teams with international financing institutions and global private organisations. He delivered multimillion-dollar climate-friendly infrastructure projects and policy initiatives that set best practice standards to truly drive sustainable development agendas and ensure communities can thrive in the future while contributing to SDG6; SDG11 and SDG13.

He leads the first Project approved for the People’s Republic of China for financing by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with co-financing from ADB, AFD and KfW. The Project pilots the Shandong Green Development Fund (SGDF), a transformational financing mechanism to catalyze climate finance for a portfolio of climate subprojects compliant with the Investment Framework of the GCF and supporting SDG13. SGDF aims to leverage private, institutional and commercial finance for climate subprojects assessed against both climate and financial eligibility criteria. The Project consists of a mix of public and private sector capital of $1 billion and catalytic resources of $500 million from international financing institutions, required to reach sufficient critical mass of funding to achieve a leverage ratio over five. The Project finances a portion of the capital expenditures of selected climate subprojects for a capped period to make the subprojects bankable, by addressing the upfront risks, promoting advanced technologies and an integrated approach to climate finance.