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Liberia's NAP Communication Strategy provides a roadmap for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to disseminate climate adaptation priorities. It identifies priority audiences—including political leadership, local communities, and the private sector—and proposes tailored messaging for six key sectors: agriculture, coastal zones, energy, fisheries, forestry, and waste management. The strategy emphasizes a multi-channel approach, prioritizing radio as the primary information source for both rural and urban populations, and includes a detailed implementation plan for 2024–2025 with a budget for activities such as community radio contracts and media training.

The document examines how the green energy transition in Africa could trigger conflict due to land displacement, environmental damage, and inequitable benefit distribution. It identifies five key categories of legal protections—land and resource rights, environmental and social protections, compensation and benefit sharing, access to information and participation, and access to justice—that can mitigate these risks. While many Sub-Saharan African countries have enacted basic protections, the brief emphasizes that the quality of implementation, institutional capacity, and political will are essential to prevent a 'green resource curse'.

The report argues that South Africa must move beyond linear thinking and 'energy blindness' to embrace systems and futures thinking for its energy transition. It identifies critical leverage points—ranging from infrastructure and regulatory reform to paradigm shifts in economic growth—to avoid energy poverty and social unrest. The framework outlines four strategic priorities: championing cross-border collaboration for energy democracies, practicing active non-alignment in renewable energy diplomacy, challenging 'used' (borrowed) energy futures, and transitioning from growth-centric economic models to anticipatory energy governance.

The report identifies a critical lack of electricity in Madagascar's healthcare facilities, with 75% of Basic Health Centres (CSBs) having no access. It proposes a multi-dimensional electrification strategy focusing on stand-alone solar and back-up solutions, requiring an estimated USD 83 million in CAPEX and OPEX over ten years. The roadmap emphasizes an 'integrated approach' that combines technical deployment with sustainable business models and health service improvements, structured across three phases from 2024 to 2032.

The report identifies a critical energy gap in Madagascar's healthcare system, where 75% of Basic Health Centres (CSBs) lack electricity. While most facilities have solar refrigerators, they lack the power for essential medical equipment and lighting. The document proposes a phased roadmap (2024-2032) requiring USD 83 million to deploy stand-alone and back-up solar solutions, emphasizing an integrated approach that combines electrification with medical equipment supply and sustainable business models to ensure long-term operation and maintenance.

The report assesses the energy deficit in Madagascar's healthcare system, finding that 75% of Basic Health Centers (CSB) lack electricity. It proposes a phased roadmap (2024-2032) to achieve universal access through standardized solar solutions, integrated health-energy coordination, and sustainable business models to cover operational expenditures (OPEX). The plan estimates a total funding requirement of USD 83 million (USD 52M CAPEX and USD 31M OPEX) over ten years.

The Sierra Leone Healthcare Electrification Project, managed by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and funded by the UK, is replacing diesel generator reliance with solar PV and battery storage in health facilities. Following a Market Assessment and Roadmap, the project initially equipped six hospitals in Freetown, Kambia, Masanga, Kabala, and Bonthe with over 0.6 MWp of solar capacity, reducing diesel usage by 58% to 99%. The project has since expanded to include an additional hospital and 25 community health centres, while providing technical training to young women in the renewable energy sector.

The Stockholm Environment Institute's 2023 Annual Results Report details the organization's progress across three primary impact areas: reducing climate risk, sustainable resource use, and health and well-being. Key achievements include supporting Morocco's net-zero 2050 target, advancing the Production Gap Report to influence COP28, and deploying digital tools like the Consumption Compass in Sweden and WEAP globally. The report also highlights organizational growth, including a 40% increase in total income over four years and a 45% per capita reduction in air travel emissions compared to 2017 levels.

The document outlines ten prevalent climate myths, attributing their spread to fossil fuel companies and political allies to confuse the public and press. It counters these myths with scientific consensus, noting that over 99% of climate scientists agree human activity is overheating the planet. The guide emphasizes that while the climate has changed naturally in the past, the current rate of change is unprecedented in 66 million years due to 250 years of fossil fuel combustion. It asserts that the tools to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius exist and that renewable energy is increasingly cost-competitive with oil. Geographically, it highlights the United States as the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, followed by China, and notes that current warming of approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius is already intensifying extreme weather globally.

In 2022, the United States had over 4.2 million climate jobs, with clean energy job creation outpacing overall job growth. Energy efficiency was the largest sector with 2.2 million jobs, followed by public transportation (821,220) and electricity transmission and distribution (over 703,000). Significant growth was observed in clean vehicles, which grew by 14.7%, and grid modernization, which saw an 11.6% increase in electricity transmission and distribution. Federal laws like the Inflation Reduction Act are expected to create over 303,500 annual construction jobs and 100,000 permanent jobs. Adaptation and resilience jobs are emerging across all 50 states, though exact total figures are unavailable.

The IEJ criticizes the 2024 Budget for prioritizing debt stabilization over public services and economic growth. It highlights significant real-term cuts in non-interest expenditure, the erosion of social grant values, and underfunding of public employment and healthcare. The report proposes increasing taxes on high-income earners and corporations, expanding social grants to the food poverty line, and increasing public investment to 25% to drive infrastructure and job creation.

Reclaim Finance criticizes Engie for paying record dividends of 4.1 billion euros in 2023 while continuing to expand its fossil gas infrastructure, including LNG imports and new power plants in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Chile.

The guide outlines how to detect greenwashing by analyzing emissions data, target setting, and the use of controversial technologies. It emphasizes the importance of absolute emissions over intensity targets and warns against the over-reliance on carbon offsets, natural gas, and unproven carbon removal technologies.

A case study on the installation of Sustain Solar SUSTAIN BOXES™ in two Malawian health clinics by International Power Control Systems (IPCS), providing off-grid renewable power for critical medical equipment and testing a sustainable business model.

The document argues that while COP28 increased ambition through technology inclusivity and pledges to scale renewables and nuclear energy, the transition now depends on effective financing and planning amidst significant geopolitical instability. It highlights that 2024 is a critical year due to widespread democratic elections and rising trade protectionism, which may prioritize domestic security over climate action. Looking toward COP29 in Baku, the authors expect a focus on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG), the phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, and the need for more realistic macroeconomic modeling to address a global climate financing gap estimated between $4.5 to $10 trillion per year. The text suggests that because multilateral consensus is increasingly difficult, progress will likely shift toward regional climate weeks and bi- or trilateral partnerships.

The policy brief advocates for 'clean repowering'—the strategy of siting new renewable energy projects at existing or retiring fossil fuel plant interconnection points—to reduce interconnection times from nearly five years to less than one year. RMI's analysis indicates this approach could enable 250 GW of new renewable energy without transmission upgrades, resulting in average national savings of $12.7 billion annually from 2025 to 2035. The brief highlights the role of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) program in making these projects financially viable and provides specific recommendations for regulators to ensure these savings reach customers through integrated resource planning and oversight.

The author contends that current climate policies are failing because they lack redistributive measures and ignore carbon inequalities, which in turn fuels right-wing populism. The text proposes a 'third way' based on post-growth economics and a 'green-red alliance' that integrates social justice with environmental goals. A central practical solution highlighted is the promotion of energy communities—non-profit entities that democratize energy production and provide affordable, clean energy to vulnerable households. The document calls for a radical acceleration of emission reductions, aiming for carbon neutrality by the mid-2030s and a negative carbon balance by the 2040s, funded by taxing high polluters and redirecting fossil fuel subsidies.

The document analyzes COP 28 outcomes for Africa, noting a gap between high-level agreements and the actual financial resources provided for adaptation and loss and damage. While it highlights the historic agreement to transition away from fossil fuels and new food system initiatives, it argues that the scale of funding remains insufficient for Africa's urgent needs.

The GCF Accreditation Panel recommends the accreditation of Bancóldex, a Colombian state-owned development bank, as a national direct access entity. The bank is recommended for a 'medium' project size category (USD 50 million to USD 250 million) and a 'medium' environmental and social risk category (B/I-2). While Bancóldex demonstrated strong fiduciary capacities in project management, grant allocation, and on-lending, the panel identified gaps in whistleblower protection, gender policy, E&S information disclosure, and grievance redress mechanisms. These gaps are framed as conditions for accreditation to be met either before the master agreement becomes effective or before the first funding proposal is submitted.

Reclaim Finance condemns TotalEnergies for distributing US$16.6 billion to shareholders in 2023 while continuing to prioritize oil and gas expansion. The organization calls on shareholders to vote against the reelection of directors, including Patrick Pouyanné, and against dividend allocations to push for a transition toward sustainable energy and emission reductions.