Blog | Operating in flood mode: Nairobi’s race to finance urban resilience

By Isaac Njuguna   March 2026, Nairobi. March usually marks the onset of Kenya’s long rainy season, but the rains are progressively arriving with deeply damaging force. Now, one of the biggest cities in Sub-Saharan Africa stands defaced by another heavy downpour, the heaviest since 2024. The picture is a complete eyesore: damaged critical infrastructure, […]

Blog | Channeling climate finance into waste-to-energy across Sub-Saharan Africa

By Abiodun Salako   The world generates more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year, a figure projected to reach 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050 by the World Bank.  While high-income countries produce the most waste per capita, it is low and middle-income countries that bear the greatest burden of mismanagement. Over […]

GCF insight #29

Welcome to your 29th GCF insight report – The role of stakeholder mobilisation in transforming cities sustainably. Cities are central to both the causes of and solutions to climate change. As hubs of human activity and economic power, they generate up to 80% of global GDP, but also account for the majority of global greenhouse […]

Blog | Iklim lokal: Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

Oleh Ari Rakatama   Selamat datang di seri terbaru kami, Climate Locals. Kami menyajikan ulasan para anggota tim E Co. tentang bagaimana perubahan iklim berdampak pada kota mereka. Kami bangga menjadi tim global yang memanfaatkan pengalaman langsung dari berbagai kota di seluruh dunia. Minggu ini, kami akan mengunjungi Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, bersama salah satu konsultan […]

Blog | Climate locals: Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

By, Ari Rakatama   Welcome to our latest series, Climate locals. We’re spotlighting members of the E Co. team and how climate change is impacting their hometowns. We are proud to be a global team that draws on first-hand experience from cities around the world. This week, we’re heading to Bandar Lampung with our Consultant, […]

Event | ‘ISULabaNtu’, London, 31 Jan ’20: Community-led upgrading in South Africa

This January, join our colleagues from the University of Westminster, University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban) and University College London to hear the findings from ISULabaNtu – a four-year, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project, under the Newton Fund Urban Transformations Programme. E Co. has been involved in the project since 2016, advising on the development […]