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    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    May 27, 2014

    Lessons from South Africa: Mobilizing Investment in Renewable Energy

    • Energy
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate investment funds
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    When it comes to renewable energy, South Africa has considerable, unrealized potential. Some estimate that wind power generation potential in South Africa could reach 80.54 TWh, which could be realized with an installed capacity of 30.6 GW. Photo credit: Lollie-Pop/Flickr
    • Energy
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate investment funds
    • renewable energy
    • low carbon development
    Finance
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    May 15, 2014

    Where Are Chinese Investments in Africa Headed?

    • Finance
    • Business
    More than 2,000 Chinese companies have invested in Africa, including in natural resource extraction, finance, infrastructure, power generation, textiles, and home appliances. Photo credit: World Bank/Flickr
    • Finance
    • Business
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    April 11, 2014

    What Is the Role for Transformation in Adaptation?

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Authors of a paper on transformational adaptation have deemed the development of wheat-resistant maize in Africa “transformative." Photo credit: WorldFish, Flickr 2012
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • climate science
    Finance
    Asia Africa Latin America North America
    News
    April 1, 2014

    ADVISORY: Can the World Bank Meet Sustainability and Governance Challenges?

    • multilateral development banks
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • low carbon development
    Climate
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    November 7, 2013

    Looking in the Pipes of Climate Adaptation Finance

    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    A climate-smart agriculture project in Ghana. Photo credit: C Peterson, CIAT/CCAFS
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Africa Asia Europe
    Insights
    October 23, 2013

    The Green Climate Fund: From Inception to Launch

    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • Finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Climate
    Africa Latin America Asia
    Insights
    October 3, 2013

    The Difficulty of Defining Adaptation Finance

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    Climate change threatens Arabica coffee plants in Colombia. Credit: CIAT/flickr
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    Equity & Governance
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    May 16, 2013

    Strengthening Ownership and Effectiveness of Climate Finance

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • climate investment funds
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • climate investment funds
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund

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