Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2019

The report finds that investment in electricity access and clean cooking remains significantly below the levels required to achieve universal energy access by 2030. While USD 36 billion was committed to electricity access in high-impact countries, only USD 12.6 billion benefited residential customers, far short of the USD 51 billion annual need. Clean cooking investment is even more critical, with only USD 32 million tracked against an annual requirement of USD 4.4 billion. The report highlights a severe lack of investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and warns that continued financing of fossil fuel power plants is incompatible with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs.

• Investment in electricity access for residential customers in high-impact countries (HICs) is insufficient, providing only USD 12.6 billion of the estimated USD 51 billion annual investment needed for universal access, despite total electricity access commitments in HICs rising to USD 36 billion from USD 30 billion in the previous report.
• Finance commitments for electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa are critically low; ten of the thirteen Sub-Saharan African HICs received less than USD 300 million each in 2017, and four reported an absolute decline in investment, with Nigeria being the only exception to the general trend of low commitments.
• Investment in clean cooking solutions is severely underfunded, with only USD 32 million in tracked finance commitments, which is less than 1 percent of the USD 4.4 billion annual investment required to close access gaps by 2030.
• Investment in grid-connected fossil fuel power plants, particularly coal, decreased from USD 8.1 billion to USD 6.6 billion, but the report argues that financing new non-renewable power is incompatible with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2019). Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/energizing-finance-understanding-the-landscape-2019/

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2019. 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/energizing-finance-understanding-the-landscape-2019/.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2019energizing, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Energizing Finance: Understanding the Landscape 2019}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2019}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/energizing-finance-understanding-the-landscape-2019/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }