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Climate finance initiatives like Altérra, launched at COP28 to mobilize private investment in emerging markets, are testing new approaches to scaling the energy transition. Check out this ImpactAlpha analysis exploring whether these efforts are unlocking investment in underserved markets or accelerating projects already attractive to private capital.

The new US–India critical minerals partnership presents an opportunity to strengthen cooperation on supply chains, processing, financing, and industrial development. Check out this commentary exploring how the framework can move from diplomacy to implementation.

On October 14, 2025, an in-person roundtable discussion in Washington D.C. unpacked the power reliability challenge in low- and middle-income countries and pressure-tested ideas from the newly released working paper Incentivizing Reliability: A Framework for Performance-Linked Electricity Improvements. Click here to learn more about our work in this area.

EAP received a Duke Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) award to research “Monetizing Resilience to Mobilize Climate Capital: Understanding the Value of Climate-Smart Agriculture in East Africa”.

Jonathan Phillips, director of the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University, will be a visiting associate professor at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in China during fall 2023. Jonathan will work with DKU’s International Master of Environmental Policy program, furthering research on low-carbon development and investment.

On the latest episode from the Sanford’s Ways & Means podcast – Marc Jeuland, Jonathan Phillips, & Rahel Bekele discusses how solar mini-grid powered irrigation can change smallholder farmers’ lives and the work EAP@Duke is doing to evaluate the effects of the DREAM project on the resilience of the farming community.

Jonathan Phillips unpacks the most commonly misunderstood concepts around the state of climate finance.