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The Climate Insurance Linked Resilient Infrastructure Financing (CILRIF) is a financial innovation designed to provide municipalities with long-term climate insurance and capital for resilient infrastructure. By linking insurance premiums to the implementation of adaptation measures, CILRIF incentivizes cities to invest in resiliency to reduce their long-term insurance costs and overall financing expenses.

The FSD Africa Impact Report 2022 details the agency's efforts to transform financial markets in Africa, specifically through its 2021–2025 green strategy. The report highlights the mobilization of £1.9 billion in long-term capital for sectors like housing and energy, the issuance of pioneering gender bonds, and the development of climate-resilient financial infrastructure to address the continent's vulnerability to climate change and economic shocks.

The FSD Africa Impact Report (2022) is an executive summary detailing the organization's performance under a strategy revised in early 2021. It highlights efforts to transform African financial markets through green bonds, local currency bond funds, climate resilience ventures, and natural capital initiatives, while also reporting on gender inclusivity and COVID-19 response measures.

This fact sheet describes a project implemented by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) from January 2022 to June 2023. The project aims to enhance the resilience of coastal and island states in Southern Africa by integrating ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) into national climate policy responses.

This fact sheet summarizes the importance of locally led adaptation as highlighted in the IPCC WGII Climate Change 2022 Report, emphasizing the role of local and Indigenous knowledge, inclusive governance, and the need for equitable resource allocation to enhance climate resilience.

The 2020-21 WWF-SASSI Retailer/Supplier Participation Scheme report evaluates the progress of major South African seafood vendors in adopting sustainable procurement practices. It highlights the intersection of climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and consumer behavior in shaping a sustainable blue economy.

This policy brief by Energy Innovation outlines the building electrification and energy efficiency provisions within the House version of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA). It details $12.5 billion in incentives for residential and commercial building decarbonization, alongside significant investments in affordable housing, workforce training, and the adoption of zero-energy building codes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and consumer costs.

The Climate Action Handbook is a guide published by Natural Justice in December 2021 designed to help communities in South Africa build climate resilience through legal empowerment. It provides educational material on the causes and impacts of climate change, outlines the legal framework of South Africa, and offers a ten-step practical toolkit for communities to advocate for their rights and hold governments and corporations accountable.

A case study detailing RMI's assistance to the Government of Montserrat and its utility company in installing a 750 kW solar system and 1 MWh battery storage, which brought the island to 50 percent renewable energy installed capacity.

The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), representing groundWork, Earthlife Africa, and the Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa, submitted formal objections to the September 2021 Final Environmental Impact Assessment Report (FEIR) for the proposed Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (MMSEZ). The CER argues that the EIA process is unlawful, procedurally irregular, and based on inadequate specialist assessments, concluding that the project's negative impacts on climate, water, and health outweigh its projected benefits.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs argues that scaling up adaptation finance is critical for Africa's sustainable development, as the region is highly vulnerable to climate change despite low emissions. It identifies significant funding gaps and barriers—including a lack of 'bankable' proposals and a perception that adaptation projects lack private sector viability—and proposes several innovations to attract both public and private capital.

This case study describes AgDevCo, a subsidized impact investor and project developer targeting early-stage small and medium agri-businesses in Sub Saharan Africa to improve food security, employment, and climate resilience for smallholder farmers.

This case study examines a World Food Program (WFP) initiative in Mozambique that provided unconditional cash transfers and food vouchers to vulnerable households following severe droughts and cyclones. The program, funded by DFID and implemented with government partners, reached over 24,000 households to improve food security and climate resilience.

This case study describes a World Bank-supported model in Cambodia using performance-based contracts to increase private sector engagement in climate-resilient road rehabilitation, and evaluates the potential for scaling this Public-Private Partnership (PPP) structure within African markets.

A case study on Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), a large-scale social protection initiative designed to address food insecurity and climate vulnerability through cash and food transfers.

CRAFT, managed by the Lightsmith Group, is a commercial growth equity fund targeting SMEs with proven climate adaptation and resilience technologies in developed and developing countries, including Africa. Having reached its first close in 2019 with backers like the Rockefeller Foundation, KfW, and EIB, the fund targets high-vulnerability, low-risk countries and seeks capital from institutional investors and development finance institutions.

This statement from the Stockholm Environment Institute argues that climate change adaptation must be treated as a global, transboundary ambition rather than a local matter, while emphasizing that adaptation cannot replace the urgent need for emissions mitigation.

RMI argues that utility-scale energy production and local electricity production, such as rooftop solar, are complementary rather than competing solutions for the energy transition in the United States.

This market brief, prepared by GreenCape for the City of Cape Town, evaluates green technologies and practices to sustainably intensify urban and peri-urban food production. It classifies interventions into three levels based on a modified Gliessman framework: increasing efficiency of current practices, substituting alternative practices, and re-establishing production through novel growing systems. The document provides financial viability assessments for hydroponics, aquaponics, and complete Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) systems, while also identifying specific investment opportunities for different farm scales in Cape Town.

This report summarizes a needs assessment conducted as part of the "Inclusive Climate-Resilient Transport Planning in Africa" project. The assessment aimed to identify challenges faced by transport planners and decision-makers in meeting the mobility needs of disadvantaged groups and incorporating climate resilience into planning processes across four primary countries and a broader regional sample in Africa.