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This research paper examines the impact of the Angera Declaration—a global agreement signed by over 150 scientists to reduce methane emissions—on Africa. It highlights the alignment between the Declaration and existing regional initiatives like the African Clean Air Program (ACAP) and the African Methane Community of Practice (AMCoP) to catalyze sustainable growth and address the health and agricultural damages caused by methane.

This paper analyzes six case studies of public climate finance to refine the understanding of 'high-quality' interventions. It highlights the challenges posed by inconsistent data and the inevitability of trade-offs across CPI's 10 dimensions of transformational potential. The authors conclude that climate finance quality must be analyzed by distinguishing between the quality of design and delivery versus the quality of results.

A factsheet detailing a legal challenge in the Western Cape High Court, South Africa, where Aukotowa Fisheries Primary Co-operative, The Green Connection, and Natural Justice are contesting a proposed 3D seismic survey for oil and gas reserves on the grounds of good governance.

This report analyzes the integration of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) into national systems in Vietnam, Namibia, Suriname, and Mozambique to boost sustainable exports. It emphasizes the need for strong regulatory foundations, continuous support for smallholders to prevent loss of certification, and the use of VSSs to diversify markets and reduce dependence on a few large buyers.

This report discusses the limitations of GDP in capturing the 'care economy'—the unpaid work, primarily performed by women, that sustains society. It highlights that women perform over 16 billion hours of unpaid care daily and argues for a cohesive, integrated system of measurement beyond isolated time-use surveys to properly value this contribution within national prosperity frameworks.

This report details lessons from participatory climate vulnerability assessments conducted in nearly 100 communities in Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe from 2024 to 2025. It emphasizes the need to integrate scientific data with local knowledge, involve local governments early to ensure institutionalization, and maintain transparency and sensitive communication during overlapping crises to ensure effective community-based adaptation.

The report advocates for a shift in African food systems toward agroecology through catalytic philanthropic investment. It outlines a three-tiered strategy targeting local innovations (niche), policy and governance (regime), and structural regional barriers (landscape), emphasizing that systemic change requires coupling bottom-up innovation with top-down reform to address food insecurity, climate vulnerability, and structural inequality.

This guide outlines the use of public and private equity to catalyze climate investment. It highlights how concessional equity absorbs risk to attract commercial capital for high-risk projects, the fiscal implications for public entities, and the varying timelines for structuring fund-level, project-level, and sovereign equity investments.

This guide explains risk pooling as a method to diversify portfolios and reduce reinsurance costs for disaster and nature risk management. It highlights that while full sovereign coverage can cost 0.5-1% of GDP, donor subsidies and diversified pools (like CCRIF) can significantly reduce these costs. The document also outlines the legal and budgetary requirements for implementation and provides timelines for membership, payouts, and pool creation.

A Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) assessment of the nature-based infrastructure (NBI) program in Kisumu, Kenya, indicates that an integrated approach combining agroforestry, sanitation, and fisheries could yield USD 940 million in net benefits over 26 years. Key drivers include USD 480 million in avoided health costs from improved sanitation and USD 62.85 million in carbon valuation, which exceeds the program's capital costs.

The EU is making progress in solar energy and cleantech manufacturing, but the overall transition to climate neutrality by 2050 is slowed by a EUR 344 billion investment gap, continued fossil fuel dependence, and policy misalignments in agriculture and building renovations.

This policy brief argues that South Africa's Free Basic Services (FBS) policy fails to support the millions of households living below the poverty line due to exclusionary municipal indigent policies, insufficient benefit levels, and restrictive conditions that hinder productive use of services.

RMI and [C]Worthy present a strategic roadmap for the development of monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems in the marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) industry. The report emphasizes that credible carbon quantification requires integrating direct in situ measurements with scientific modeling. It outlines a nine-step organizational journey—from initial strategy and hiring a quantification lead to data reporting and industry knowledge sharing—to help startups secure funding and ensure environmental accountability.

The report proposes replacing rigid fiscal rules in emerging markets with flexible debt anchors embedded within a comprehensive fiscal regime. It advocates for enhanced transparency and the establishment of independent fiscal councils to ensure long-term debt sustainability and resilience against shocks.

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.

Brazil is positioned to become a global leader in green iron exports due to its abundant renewable energy, which can make hydrogen-based direct reduction (H2-DRI) steel production up to 65% cheaper than in other countries.

This policy brief argues that South Africa's Just Energy Transition must move beyond infrastructure to prioritize workers and economic diversification. It suggests that reallocating 10% of bank lending (R52.41 billion) and reforming retirement industry offshore limits (R600 billion) could provide necessary funding. Key recommendations include expanding the Green Finance Taxonomy to include worker transition plans and implementing green capital requirements to incentivize job-creating investments.

This research paper examines the obstacles to including people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identity/expression, and sexual characteristics (SOGIESC) in disaster risk reduction and humanitarian policy. Based on two Asia-Pacific projects from 2018 and 2021, it concludes that while participatory forums generate recommendations, they are insufficient for transformative change without wider advocacy and solidarity.

This fact sheet from Sustainable Energy for All outlines various global platforms, compacts, and coalitions designed to accelerate the energy transition and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7).

The paper argues that Africa faces unsustainable public debt levels due to a shift toward private and non-traditional creditors, which increases borrowing costs and crowds out climate and social investments. It concludes that current G20 and Common Framework relief mechanisms are insufficient and calls for a fundamental overhaul of the global financial system.