Your advisors for the green era
Clients of all sizes — from small project developers to multi-laterals — use August Group to structure finance, develop projects, and generate impact through the green transition.
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Why August Group
Unlocking climate finance for your organisation
Leading advisory
We help our clients understand the trends in climate finance, and best-in-class solutions—policy, structuring or otherwise—being deployed.
Green finance specialists
We have been financing and developing climate projects for more than 20 years giving us real-world expertise in development.
Close to market
Our teams are connected to critical market participants in target markets, giving us the ability to get high-resolution data in short timeframes.
Grounded in reality
From consideration of the local recipient to political incentive mapping, we optimise for solutions that work in reality—not theory.
Led by understanding
The world’s leading research applied to local issues
Our team publishes world-leading papers on the role of climate finance in the green transition and export finance, and offers that same expertise to every single project, so you don't have to agonise over finding the right solution, or investing in the wrong places.
We have a deep understanding of the issues prevalent in South-East Asia and the Pacific, with on-the-ground networks and relationships with major donors and policy makers in the region.
Select research contributions
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As emissions reach record levels, governments must implement and strengthen climate policies for the global pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050. Climate finance plays a crucial role in the net-zero transition. It refers to local, national, or transnational financing seeking to support mitigation and adaptation actions that address climate change. Public export–import banks (EXIMs) and government export credit agencies (ECAs) are highly influential actors for climate action. Although there is no consensus among EXIMs and ECAs on how to define climate finance, 20 institutions assessed in this research give evidence that they strongly support climate-action-related transactions: EXIM and ECA financing, guarantees, and insurance amounted to EUR 6.7–8.4 billion in 2020, much more than estimated by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). However, the results also reveal that EXIM and ECA lending, guarantee, and insurance activities must rise substantially in order to contribute to climate finance volumes required by 2030 as estimated by CPI. To retain their current proportion relative to other climate finance flows, assessed institutions would need to increase their climate financing 6.8 times to up to EUR 57.4 billion by 2030.
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Trade is a fundamental human activity. However, the past decade has been characterised by increasing regulation and protectionism. This paper explores the role of development banks as trade finance policy tools in responding to regulation-induced market failures. Towards this end, it discusses the impact of recent trends in banking regulation on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), financial institutions, and emerging economies.
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The Handbook of Global Trade Policy offers readers a comprehensive resource for the study of international trade policy, governance, and financing. This timely and authoritative work presents contributions from a team of prominent experts that assess the policy implications of recent academic research on the subject. Discussions of contemporary research in fields such as economics, international business, international relations, law, and global politics help readers develop an expansive, interdisciplinary knowledge of 21st century foreign trade
$5 trillion
climate investment needed globally, per year
$170 billion
spent on climate disasters in 2021
7x increase
in export credit required to support the net-zero transition
Global reach and expertise
A qualified team for your next assignment
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Jenni Henderson
CO-FOUNDER
Jenni is a leading advisor on trade and development finance. Her experience delivering institutional transformation in Africa, Caribbean and Asia-Pacific gives her insight into financial institutions, serving SMEs and delivering investment. Alongside work in the green and blue-economy, Jenni is a board member for Grameen Australia.
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Josh Phillips
CO-FOUNDER
Josh is co-founder and director of August Group. With experience in decarbonisation, climate investment and energy markets, his focus is on identifying and creating incentives to help organisations adapt to the new economy.
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Natasha Baulis
GENDER EXPERT
Natasha brings first-hand experience working with remote African populations across education, health and financial literacy. These experiences have shaped her passion for human-centred design and delivering programs that consider culture and environment.
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Gregor Paterson-Jones
PRINCIPAL ADVISOR
Gregor has 27 years of experience in investment banking and asset management through PE, VC, structured product investments and fixed income, project finance, PPP senior debt, and equities. For 18 years he has focussed on energy infrastructure and SME and development finance transactions including many in renewables.
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Eddy Lichtig
STRATEGY ANALYST AND RESEARCHER
Eddy brings to August Group experience in international policy and diplomacy. He is passionate about improving climate finance for developing communities and producing policy that leads to ongoing, positive change.
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Nicola Amoroso
CONSULTANT
Nicola has specific expertise of Asia-Pacific with a focus on access to finance in the fields of Agrifinance and SME Finance. His experience working directly with businesses in Myanmar gives unique insight for solving the challenges that businesses in SE-Asia have building and scaling their enterprises sustainably.
