WHERE WE WORK

This region is the most vulnerable to climate change on Earth. Rising temperatures and sea levels contribute to more natural disasters.

Since 2008, CIF has invested in 21 countries in the region: from Ethiopia in the East, across to Liberia in the West, and down to South Africa — the region's biggest economy. It is supporting the delivery of clean technology and climate resilience through various projects.

Asia is on the frontline of the climate crisis.  The region is expected to see hotter weather, longer monsoon seasons, and increased droughts. More than 50 percent of its people have been impacted by climate-related disasters over the last two decades. 

CIF investments are enabling innovative climate-smart projects in coastal resilience, renewable energy, and regenerative forestry, and empowering the region’s emerging cities to grow in greener, cleaner, and more sustainable ways.

Central Asia faces a significant food security threat: crop yields are expected to endure a 30-percent decrease by 2050. Contributory factors include the ongoing loss of glaciers and reduced snowpack melt in a sector that is reliant on water runoff for crop irrigation.

An estimated 22 million people in Central Asia have no direct access to clean water. Climate change impacts are expected to further reduce access in the coming decades. CIF investments have enabled several important adaptation and mitigation interventions in some of the most vulnerable countries in the region.

Regarded as highly vulnerable, climate change-related disasters are increasing across the region. Temperature extremes are impacting agricultural productivity, sea-level rises are threatening the region’s largest cities, and deforestation remains a major threat to biodiversity.

Investments from CIF are supporting the delivery of ambitious climate change plans that have been set out by multiple countries in the region.

Described as highly vulnerable by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, this region is expected to see worsening conditions under increased threats from climate change impacts, such as droughts, extreme temperatures, dry soil, as well as reduced access to already scarce water and agricultural resources.

CIF’s interventions are helping the region to achieve energy security, mitigate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create green jobs, and emerge as a key player in renewable energies.