Africa
CPI’s work in Africa and full range of services supports governments, financial institutions, civil society organizations, and the private sector to close the climate finance gap and improve the geographic distribution, private sector participation, and equity investment in climate action and sustainable growth.
CPI developed the first-of-its-kind Landscape of Climate Finance in Africa, a comprehensive assessment of climate finance flows and mobilization in the region, regularly cited by policymakers, advocacy organizations, investors, and the media. Country-level tracking work includes Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
CPI was the implementation partner for GNIplus in Kenya, a four-year program that supported the Kenyan government to achieve its NDCs. Other CPI programs and workstreams that support the expansion and effectiveness of climate investment and sustainable development in Africa include our work in Adaptation, in Cities via the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance, Sustainable Agriculture, with the South Africa President’s Climate Commission on aligning climate finance with South African’s Green Finance Taxonomy, and in Just Transition, through our work supporting fossil fuel just transition efforts such as the South Africa JETP and other carbon transition efforts.
CPI is best known for its innovation and mobilization of climate finance in Africa through our Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. The Lab’s Southern Africa workstream launched in 2019 and was expanded to include East African countries in 2023. More recently, CPI has launched the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility, in which 50% of its inaugural 2023 cohort targets African markets, and the ClimateShot Investor Coalition, an action-oriented group of investors working to rapidly scale-up finance for sustainable agrifood systems.
Our Africa team is guided by Jonathan First, and includes local experts as well as support from our Africa-focused specialists in our United Kingdom office.
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Landscape of Climate Finance in Africa
The most comprehensive overview of climate investment flows in Africa.
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Climate Finance Needs of African Countries
An assesment of the climate finance needs of African countries to implement their NDCs.
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Climate Finance Innovation for Africa
Meeting Africa’s climate finance needs will require significantly higher levels of investment, especially from the private sector. This publication provides a framework for how financial and non-financial solutions can be efficiently deployed to overcome barriers to finance and capitalize climate solutions in Africa.
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The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2023
The report aims to provide consistent information on current climate investments in South Africa to highlight existing gaps, spotlight opportunities, and provide a foundation to mobilize and scale climate finance.
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Financing Net Zero Carbon Buildings in Nigeria
This report is part of a three-part series led by CCFLA to promote an understanding of financing barriers to net zero carbon building and identifies how national, state, and local policy and regulatory frameworks can be improved to drive private and public investment in this sector.
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Climate Resilient Landscape Finance
Climate Resilient Landscape Finance is an innovative concessional debt facility combining microfinance, private debt, and technical assistance to address the underlying challenges to long-term sustainable, climate-resilient land management in and around African conservancies.
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Catalyst Climate Resilience Fund
The Catalyst Climate Resilience Fund is the leading impact fund and accelerator supporting pre-seed tech startups that are building a climate resilient future in Africa.
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Social Infra Ventures
Social Infra Ventures is a first-of-its-kind rental and for sale gender-responsive green affordable housing platform in Northern Africa.
