KfW Climate Protection Offensive for Businesses (Klimaschutzoffensive für Unternehmen)
Supports German firms through subsidised investment loans for technology and process upgrades that reduce or avoid greenhouse-gas emissions.
The KfW Klimaschutzoffensive für Unternehmen (programme 293) is a subsidised investment loan operated by KfW Bankengruppe designed to support German companies in financing measures that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. The programme sits within KfW's Climate Protection product cluster alongside programme 291 (Konsortialkredit), and targets the broad German Mittelstand and SME population r…
Provides subsidised investment loans of up to EUR 25 million to German companies financing projects that measurably reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions.
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