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Sustainable Finance in Practice: Strategies, Risks and Opportunities
What happens when climate forecasts signal a potential crisis? Can financial institutions act before the impacts are felt?
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Whose Money, Whose Terms? Financing Africa’s Energy Transition
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VIDEO SERIES — National Transition Plans: do they actually get finance flowing and action happening?
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Exploring the Monetary Architecture of South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank
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Dignity of finance: Towards a just term sheet in financing climate and transition-related outcomes
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Post-event briefing note: To Plan or Not to Plan? Climate Investment Plans as a Basis for Driving Change
At the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Rabia Transitions hosted a discussion titled: “To Plan or Not to Plan? Climate investment plans as a basis for driving change.”
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Financing Climate Action — Open-Access eBook
The Centre for Development and Environment Policy (CDEP) at IIM Calcutta hosted the launch of Financing Climate Action, a new open-access eBook examining climate finance through developing-economy realities, with a strong focus on India.
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Reframing Needs-Based Finance through Mutual Commitment and Dialogue
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Investing in the Just Transition: Why is it so difficult?
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To plan or not to plan? Climate investment plans as a basis for driving change
In collaboration with 2050 Pathways on long term strategies, Rabia is part of an ongoing project around climate investment plans, and correlation to resource mobilisation.
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The Principles of Inclusive Finance
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African Perspectives of a Just Transition to Low Carbon Economies: Technical Report 2024
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Reflections on the Relevance of Cost Transparency Standards to South Africa’s Financing Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
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How does South Africa’s Just Transition Framework compare to the International Labour Organization Just Transition Guidelines?
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Exploring the intersection of equity and Article 2.1(c) towards an improved Global Stocktake
Bringing together finance flows and equity, the first GST seeks to measure collective progress on Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement ‘in light of equity.’
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Dr Chantal Naidoo on EarthCast
Olivia Taylor speaks to Dr Chantal Naidoo about climate finance and the unique funding needs for financing just energy transition investment portfolios in South Africa. Chantal unpacks options and concerns regarding how to accelerate the JET, and about how her company, Rabia Transitions Initiative, is enabling financial actors to finance and contribute to a just and inclusive transition.
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Women Climate Leadership: Interview with Penelope Herbst
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