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This report details a research initiative in East and Southern Africa that employed participatory foresight to engage youth as co-creators of systemic justice. It advocates for transforming interlinked social and economic structures and recommends shifting from tokenistic youth inclusion to authentic co-governance and futures literacy in education.

This policy brief argues for the mainstreaming of climate change into Africa's development strategy through green industrialization, renewable energy, and multilateral engagement to ensure a more inclusive global dialogue on trade and climate resilience.

This study analyzes public finance for sustainable land use in Côte d’Ivoire in 2015 to support the National REDD+ Strategy. It warns that the country could lose all forest cover by 2034 and suggests that greening agricultural finance could increase REDD+ aligned funding to FCFA 101 billion (USD 169 million).

The research paper examines the MRV requirements of the CDM, finding them to be overly complex and stricter than those of the EU ETS, which hinders project issuance and creates avoidable barriers without adding to environmental integrity.

This case study examines a 1995 power purchasing agreement between Tanzania's Tanesco and Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL). The deal is presented as a failed Public-Private Partnership characterized by alleged corruption, excessive costs, and a lack of feasibility studies, resulting in the state paying for unnecessary generating capacity while facing a deficit in grid infrastructure.

This working paper by the World Resources Institute and OECD proposes a 4-stage framework to improve the estimation of private climate finance mobilized by public interventions. It addresses the technical complexity of quantifying these linkages, particularly for UNFCCC reporting by developed countries for activities in developing countries, and recommends both short-term transparency measures and long-term standardization of data systems and definitions.

The World Resources Institute presents a random forest model that captures 86% of future conflicts (defined as 10+ fatalities per year), though with a 50% false positive rate. While water-related variables correlate with conflict, they are not empirically significant for model decisions unless the conflict definition is modified. A web-based tool is provided to visualize these forecasts and vulnerabilities.

A WRI and PS Kenya case study on a pilot project for health-care providers in Kenya finds that successful demand-based energy access requires thorough exploration of user needs in technology, finance, and capacity building.