How we approach this work.
Financial institutions across East Africa are under growing pressure to classify, grow and report on climate-aligned lending — often without a consistent internal methodology for deciding what qualifies. The gap is rarely appetite; it is a working framework that connects taxonomy, hazard exposure and financing response into something a credit or portfolio team can actually apply.
Windhill structures and appraises climate-aligned financing instruments for MSME and business lending portfolios, drawing on transaction and advisory experience across sustainable and thematic finance. We review climate finance taxonomies, regulatory frameworks and market classification systems, and translate international standards — ICMA, EU, IFC and CBI Climate Bonds Standards — into practical, bank-ready criteria.
A central part of this work is hazard identification: mapping the climate hazards a portfolio or sector is exposed to and matching them against the adaptation and resilience financing responses that address them. We combine this with a working knowledge of sustainable finance frameworks and responsible investment approaches, so recommendations sit inside the compliance and reporting realities our clients already operate under.
Our team has supported green, sustainability and thematic transaction work from portfolio review and framework development through second-party opinion, verification and post-issuance reporting, and has advised on blended finance and conservation deal structures, including transactions of $285 million and above.
