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Financing sustainable growth
Our support can help UK businesses and overseas buyers make the transition to a more sustainable future.
Seize opportunities in the global sustainability marketplace
There is a world of opportunity for UK companies in the clean growth, renewable energy, and climate adaptation and resilience sectors.
Our products can help UK exporters take advantage of these opportunities by providing specialist support to UK companies and favourable financing for their international buyers.
We provide end-to-end support for transactions, from connecting international buyers with UK businesses, to providing specialist financial expertise, through to project completion. As a key strategic priority for UKEF, we understand the renewable and clean growth sectors and can bring the UK’s world-leading capability and expertise to the global market.
We have up to £2 billion allocated for direct lending to overseas buyers in support of clean growth projects, through our Clean Growth Direct Lending Facility.
A rich pipeline of green projects and support for your business
Green trade is set to be worth £1.8 trillion by 2030, delivering up to £170 billion of export sales in goods and services for the UK by 2030. We have liquidity for UK businesses to tap into to support green and sustainable trade, with a £60 billion capacity to support UK exports.
Sustainability Strategy
Our Sustainability Strategy sets out our plan to position UK exporters and suppliers at the heart of the global low-carbon transition and use our finance in developing markets to create positive impact on communities overseas and in the UK. We have ambitions to provide £10 billion of clean growth finance and mobilise £10 billion in finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2029.
Success stories
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Delivering critical infrastructure in coastal Angola
Our loan guarantees have enabled British exporter Innovo Group to secure a contract which commits to delivering critical infrastructure projects in Benguela Province, a coastal region of Angola vulnerable to flooding and poor drainage.
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Building a wind tech factory in the Tees Valley
Alongside South Korea’s export credit agency, K-Sure, we have secured support for SeAH Steel Holding’s construction of a wind tech factory near Redcar. This investment will create 750 jobs in Teesside and ensure construction of the world’s largest wind monopile factory in Redcar.
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Developing high-speed electric railways in Turkey
Our support will fund construction of 503km of high-speed electric railway, helping to fulfil Turkey’s climate change commitments while creating multi-million-pound export contract opportunities for UK suppliers in the rail sector.