Leveraging
Financing

Pullers: Febelfin and PMVV 

We are building an investment policy towards circular economy. We seek investment budgets to scale up strong projects. We explore the possibilities of working with a circular economy fund and make the link to the European incentive and investment policy.

In theory, we have the wind at our backs for this. In the financial sector, the focus on circular economy is growing. The EU taxonomy for sustainable activities and the growing focus on ESG in finance and financial products are illustrations of this.

Bottlenecks

There are, of course, bottlenecks:

• Sometimes the transition of companies from linear to circular activities is gradual, so financial institutions do not rate them as circular. Result: the file falls under the 'classic' credit assessment and does not come out favourably.
• Sometimes a circular dossier is very innovative, but then there is no track record, no cash flow, uncertain parameters ... Result: the file is assessed as too risky and does not come out favourably from the assessments.

Therefore, with our lever, we want to contribute to an appropriate and watertight assessment of a circular finance file. To this end, we include the entire value chain in the assessment, provide circular metrics and link to a battery of support measures for circular business.

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