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We are in a race against time to improve the resilience of the world’s infrastructure. Demand for infrastructure investment is increasing worldwide. From 2015 to 2030, $90 trillion in new infrastructure investments will be needed—an amount equivalent to the world’s total existing stock.

• 07/09/2020
• Doug Mason

How can programs encourage and enable local commercial banks to lend to companies supplying solar home systems for off-grid customers? Power Africa supported the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity’s training and technical assistance on this topic. In the process,

• 06/11/2020
• Power Africa

In many developing countries, the companies that build, supply, and sell clean energy solutions have difficulty obtaining bank loans or other financing to expand their businesses or reach new markets. This was the case in Rwanda until Power Africa, through USAID, at the demand from financial institutions and providers of solar PV solutions, took action to educate, connect, and support commercial lending programs for off-grid electricity.

• 06/01/2020
• Power Africa

At the June Adaptation Community Meeting, four climate change risk specialists from leading development organizations came together to discuss how they are thinking about climate risk and what processes they are putting in place to improve resilience.

• 07/20/2018
• Climatelinks

The USAID-funded Learning Agenda on Climate Services in sub-Saharan Africa—together with partners from the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at the University of Cape Town—convened 65 participants in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of the fifth international climate change adaptation conference.

• 07/19/2018
• Climatelinks

Climate information services (CIS) can empower smallholder farmers to take actions that reduce losses, improve food security and increase income by providing critical weather and climate information related to agriculture.

• 07/10/2018
• Helen Rosko, Cathy Vaughan

The Climate Information Prize (CIP) in Kenya is an effort to help bridge the gap between the large amount of climate information available from meteorological services and people who may use it to cope with climate shocks and stressors.

• 05/08/2018
• Lars Otto Naess, Nicki Spence, Lorenza Geronimo

At the April 20th  Adaptation Community Meeting, Erica Hovani and Ekhosuehi Iyahen from African Risk Capacity (ARC) tackled the complex but increasingly important topic of insuring countries against climate risks.

• 05/04/2017
• Climatelinks

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