The Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme is funded by the UK’s Foreign Development and Commonwealth Office to create investment cases that will attract vital climate finance and funding for their clean energy infrastructure plans in the Global South.
The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) is part of a partnership of leading UK Universities, with Loughborough (consortium lead), Cambridge, Imperial, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Climate Parliament involved in the programme, amongst others.
The ECI’s Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS) is co-leading the System Integration theme, with a focus upon systems analysis of the resilience of energy and transport infrastructure to climate-related threats. We have developed a new online-learning course on infrastructure system planning and played a key role in an cutting-edge Critical Minerals study in Africa.
The cash boost was announced by the Prime Minister during the G7 Summit last week.
The funding outlined by Rishi Sunak includes £57m of ODA (Overseas Development Aid) to CCG, “which will accelerate the roll-out of improved, climate resilient infrastructure in developing countries. It will provide even more countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with the UK expertise needed to support improved, climate resilient infrastructure.” This means CCG will continue until 2030 and expand the number of countries with which it works.