South Pole advises clients across the private and public sector on developing and implementing mandates that provide financial support and technical assistance to projects and SMEs that deliver climate impact.
Procuring carbon assets is a good idea if companies or governments have a net zero goal, and need to secure large volumes of carbon (removal) credits over the next 10-20 years.
By developing an impact platform with South Pole, clients can drive transformative change, with opportunities beyond traditional commercial capital and grant-based climate finance. This 'patient' or soft capital enables projects and SMEs/startups to bring their products and services to market.
We also connect clients with opportunities that scale up low-carbon technologies and business models.
We advise companies, governments and philanthropies on financing climate action at scale. Our advisory work includes vehicle design, project and technical due diligence, donor matching, grant-making strategy, partnership analysis, setting up governance, impact and and monitoring frameworks.
South Pole helps clients to support climate action through two types of advisory mandates:
We have developed and managed six dedicated procurement mandates targeting purchase of certified emission reductions and carbon credit issuance for public and private sector clients.
Platforms that source & evaluate projects & SMEs/startups to which clients can provide technical or financial support along topics such as landscape resilience, climate adaptation, circular economy & social inclusion.
In addition to our track record of procuring carbon credits and supporting innovative projects, we have 15 years of experience working to support a low-carbon and climate-resilient world.
Over a decade of technical experience in land use and clean energy.
Identified and developed over 850 projects, thereby enabling project owners to sell carbon credits and to mobilise more than US$10 billion in private investments for low-carbon projects.
Sound processes based on globally accepted standards.
Demonstrated climate impact with more than 1GtCO2 saved over the past 10 years by our climate action projects.
Martin Stadelmann, Executive Director, Climate Investments at South Pole, is a climate finance expert with more than 15 years of experience in developing, implementing and evaluating climate action projects, programmes and funds in developing countries, with a focus on clean energy and adaptation to climate change.
His experience spans contributions to innovative mechanisms under the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, the Global Landscape of Climate Finance reports and the finance chapters of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and the UNEP Adaptation Gap report 2014. Until 2009, he managed climate action projects in developing countries at myclimate. From 2009 to 2018, he advised governments, development banks and climate funds on international climate finance and represented the Swiss government in international climate negotiations, in addition to advising other governments on the same matter. Martin initiated several innovative climate action funds and platforms, including the Landscape Resilience Fund and the City Finance Lab. He holds a PhD in political science, and a MSc in geography.
