ReACT is the latest CIF study that was launched at a global event on March 30, co-hosted by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ, Germany), CIF, and the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA). High-level stakeholders from the private and public sectors; donor and recipient countries; multilateral development banks (MDBs), a...

To ensure a 1.5˚C future, we must transition away from coal. But, in 2022, coal emissions grew by 243 Mt to an all-time high of 15.5 Gt, increasing faster than the annual average growth over the past decade. Why are we not on track? Several complex challenges hinder the pace of the transition so far. In developing countries, there are two major ch...

The governing board of the Climate Investment Funds has opened the door for South Africa and Indonesia to receive $500 million each for a just transition from coal to clean. The decision intends to equip each country with access to $500 million in concessional, risk-bearing capital from CIF’s Accelerating Coal Transition (CIF ACT) investment prog...

WASHINGTON—The governing board of the Climate Investment Funds, one of the world’s largest multilateral funds for climate action in developing countries, endorsed new investment plans set to allocate $1 billion for a just transition from coal to clean power in South Africa and Indonesia. The decision intends to equip each country with access to...

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.

This week, Mzila Mthenjane with Exxaro Resources in South Africa and Dr. Raju Evr with the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, join Sandeep Pai of the Just Transition Initiative to look at the role environmental remediation plays in the just transition agenda. For more, read Understanding Just Transitions in Coal Depende...

This week, Chandra Bhushan with iFOREST and Jesse Burton with the University of Cape Town join Sandeep Pai (CSIS) to look at how key themes of just transitions are important in the context of CoP26 meetings. They then discuss the key priorities on the ground for a just transition away from coal in the major economies of South Africa and India. For ...