in the case of jicas financing scheme for energy savings projects in india for example a loan to the small industries and development bank of india sidbi supports micro small and mediumsized enterprises msmes investments in environmental improvements and energy efficiency one example is the swedish leadership for sustainable development platform through which sida the swedish development cooperation agency facilitates a network of swedish companies that meet regularly in sweden to discuss opportunities to promote global leadership in addressing sustainability issues the focus of private sector approaches has been unsurprisingly mostly in upper middle income countries and in sectors where there is a clear business case and potential for returns ie renewable energy and to a smaller extent energy efficiency the analysis of climate related development finance in in this paper shows that the majority of development cooperation support went to projects in middle income countries and was deployed toward climate change mitigation around supporting activities in the energy sector such as the development of renewable energy projects