3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
technology. Proposal 3 suggests immediate opportunities beyond Luxembourg itself. Proposal 4
provides an overview of a number of supplemental financial strategies. Finally, Proposal 5
describes the mobilization of a larger strategic effort to ensure success within the financial
arena.
PROPOSALS
Proposal 1: A Sustainable Development Finance Strategy
1.1 The Luxembourg Sustainable Development Finance Platform
The key project and recommendation in this section regarding the Financial sector as an
enabler consists in the creation of a central interface platform that would support the financing
of investable projects in all the pillar sectors of sustainability (economic, social, environmental),
including TIR projects (but not limited to), as well as their promotion among potential investors
and project promoters.
This platform could be called the “Luxembourg Sustainable Development Finance Platform”
(LSDFP). The main idea is to have the “LSDFP” as a body to interface between potential financial
contributors (public and private) and project promoters (public and private) and to assess each
of the projects submitted in order to ensure compliance with a given set of eligibility criteria as
well as quality checks on the feasibility of the project, the value creation and the output of it to
potential investors.
Most TIR projects, if not all of them, will require some sort of financing and investment. It is
therefore important to connect projects (of all sizes) to all types of potential investors via
different investment channels (see chart here attached).
This platform can provide potential investors and project promoters with various advantages:
Provide access to privileged information and opportunities.
Allow financial contributors to invest according to their individual risk appetite and
expectations in terms of financial return and impact, including in kind.
Allow project promoters to submit project proposals in line with their policies, missions,
mandates or business plans.
Allow structured and blended financing (public/private) for better risk management (i.e.
through guaranties) and increased leverage.
Provide quality and compliance certification.
The platform can be set up under the form of a PPP (private-public-partnership, see description
below). Project promoters will need guidance to choose the right financing instruments. The
eligibility of project proposals to the platform should be based on a preliminary assessment.
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