PFAN’s global network of expert consultants provides free business coaching and investment facilitation to entrepreneurs developing climate adaptation and clean energy projects in low- and middle-income countries. It aims to build clean energy markets one business at a time, mitigate climate change and mobilise private investment in support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The report gives insight into PFAN's origins, its mission and vision and its achievements so far. It highlights success stories of projects that reached financial close in 2017, and introduces some of the main people behind the network.