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Adapting to climate change Investing in community climate Climate resilience and nature-related projects
in 2023 included:
Africa is particularly vulnerable to the effects action and resilience
• Investing in solar-powered boreholes that
of climate change, with many regions exposed Negative climate impacts are being felt by
provide water security and enable farmers to
to water scarcity and changing weather communities across Africa at a scale and pace
increase crop yields and income in villages
patterns, as well as entrenched socio-economic not seen before. While our low carbon power
surrounding our Taiba N’Diaye wind farm in
challenges that limit the continent’s capacity projects directly help communities become
Senegal. These communities have experienced
to adapt. The climate crisis is already being felt more resilient to climate change by diversifying
reduced rainfall due to climate change.
disproportionately in Africa with 2023 bringing the energy mix and adding new reliable and
catastrophic drought in East Africa, significant renewable capacity, we want to do more. • Replacing farmers’ diesel-powered irrigation
flooding in West and Central Africa, and a cyclone systems with solar-powered water pumps.
in southern Africa. Beyond our day-to-day operations, we’re directly
• Tree-planting across the wider project area
investing in projects to reduce greenhouse
of our Taiba N’Diaye project.
As we operate and plan renewable energy gas emissions, preserve nature and biodiversity,
• Operating an off-grid renewable power
projects in this changing climate, our projects and improve communities’ resilience to
system to assist the supply of municipal water
must be sustainable over the long term. We climate change.
to 22,000 people. This reduced costs by 25%
assess climate risks and conduct site-level
research to understand and mitigate potential We believe direct investments in nature- and outages caused by power cuts by 40%.
future impacts. Our plants are planned in based solutions and carbon reduction projects
suitable locations and designed to operate in close to our operations is the most effective
higher temperatures and more extreme weather way to mitigate emissions and support local
conditions. For instance, the wind turbines communities. Our approach focuses on creating
at our West Bakr site in Egypt are fitted with the most direct local benefits, and tailoring these
additional filters and technology to withstand high to the community’s needs. We use a climate
temperatures. We also carefully consider climate resiliency framework to assess potential projects
resilience and adaptation in our community and ensure our investments consider local
investment projects. communities’ specific risks and vulnerabilities in
a changing climate. Our community investment
managers ensure the projects we fund will
support communities’ ability to adapt and be
resilient now and in future.
These investments help reduce hundreds of
tonnes of carbon emissions each year. For
example, our projects in Senegal save 268 tonnes
of GHG emissions each year and will save over
2,600 tonnes of CO e over a decade.
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Tree planting at our site in Senegal
