Fueling Hopes For Burkina Faso’s Sustainable Development As a land-locked country in West Africa's Sahel region, Burkina Faso is not necessarily one that jumps to mind when thinking about forests and climate change. But knowing that its arid and semi-arid ecosystems have high carbon sequestration potential, particularly its soil, explains why CIF...

In 2018, The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) celebrated its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion the CIF@10 campaign was launched to honor the achievements and lessons learned from the first ten years. CIF reflects on its journey by sharing stories by those who have benefited from climate finance.The yearlong campaign highlighted that a shift towa...

Increasing the use of renewables is a challenging target – enter the solar boom – a way of exploiting nature’s most abandoned natural resource to provide viable solutions to energy problems all around the world. But how can its potential be leveraged to bring power to households and reduce carbon emissions? The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) ...

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) launched the CIF Nature, People, and Climate (NPC) investment platform to pilot and scale nature-based solutions in developing countries.

By Marat Yelibayev and Serik Shashdauletov Rapid economic growth in Kazakhstan over recent decades has brought a sharp upswing in electricity demand and usage. Per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) increased from below US $ 6,000 in the mid-1990s to over US $ 27,000 in 2019 and the country looked on course to meet its mounting resource demands by...

CIF · Kazakhstan: A Solar Superpower in Central Asia   In Nursultan, Kazakhstan’s gleaming new capital, even monuments honoring the past look toward the future. My guide Yunur points to one of them. “Now, we’re looking to the monument Baiterek.” Baiterek Tower is one of the city’s tallest structures and a popular tourist destination. I...

After leaving a long career in fossil fuels, solar technician Ruslan Mametov is proud to work at Burnoye Solar, Kazakhstan’s first and largest solar power facility. Ruslan Mametov, an electrician living in the southern Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan, counts himself lucky. In 2015, he landed a position as a technician at Kazakhstan’s firstever so...

Observers from civil society, the business community, and other sectors are core to CIF governance. In a series of interviews, we asked two observers coming to the end of their term to share what they achieved and how they informed CIF decision-making. Interview with Socheath Sou, SREP ObserverInterview with Archana Godbole, FIP Observer Interview ...

The investment choices we make today will determine the development pathway of countries for years to come. As climate talks began at the COP25 conference in Madrid, Mafalda Duarte sat down with EU Reporter and MEP Paul Tang to discuss the importance of supporting low-carbon development in low and middle-income countries in order to meet gl...

Mafalda Duarte sits down with Cheddar TV to find out how investing in climate-smart solutions can make a positive impact in developing countries.

To say it gets cold in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, is putting it mildly. This northeastern city has a harsh continental climate, with winter temperatures known to sink to 47 degrees below zero. That is 29 degrees colder than a typical household freezer. In the face of subzero temperatures, the only recourse for Pavlodar’s citizens is their thermostat ...