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The State of ClimateTech in Africa 2.0 is a report by FSD Africa and partners that analyzes the evolution of the African ClimateTech ecosystem between 2016 and 2025. Moving beyond aggregate funding totals, the report employs a new application-led taxonomy and an adapted Carlota Perez techno-economic framework to demonstrate that African ClimateTech is not a single market but a collection of applications maturing at different speeds. It highlights deep concentrations of capital in the Energy and Mobility sectors and identifies critical financing gaps—particularly in early-stage equity and working capital—that constrain the growth of asset-heavy and adaptation-focused ventures.

This research paper by Olsson and Dawkins introduces the provisioning systems framework to analyze how human needs can be met without exceeding the boundaries of sustainable natural resource use, specifically focusing on climate change mitigation.

This research paper argues that low-carbon energy transitions are social and gendered processes, often dominated by male perspectives. It proposes an 'Alternative Pathways' framework to analyze how different gender perspectives and niche innovations can either work within, depart from, or fundamentally transform the existing energy regime to avoid pathways that are disconnected from local realities.

This policy brief explores how the Planetary Boundaries framework can be used to define the 'global level of ambition' for the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It argues that by downscaling global environmental limits to national or regional levels and combining them with consumption-based accounting, countries can better implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production.

This research paper examines the use of local content requirements (LCRs) as a tool to align renewable energy deployment with socio-economic goals, specifically analyzing LCRs for solar photovoltaics within India's National Solar Mission.

This fact sheet from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) outlines approaches to building local resilience and influencing national climate policy through community-based research in the Caribbean, specifically focusing on Saint Lucia and Jamaica.