Applying climate reparative finance toward water security

Evan Thomas; Jean Ntazinda; Styvers Kathuni

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162506

Applying climate reparative finance toward water security

Sci Total Environ. 2023 Jun 1:875:162506. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162506. Epub 2023 Mar 9.

Authors

Evan Thomas¹, Jean Ntazinda², Styvers Kathuni²

Affiliations

¹ Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience, University of Colorado Boulder, 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite N290, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America. Electronic address: ethomas@colorado.edu.
² Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience, University of Colorado Boulder, 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite N290, Boulder, CO 80303, United States of America.

PMID: 36898543
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162506

Abstract

Water insecurity is increasing globally as one of the first perceivable effects of climate change. While water management is typically a local challenge, climate finance mechanisms offer the potential to switch climate-damaging capital toward climate reparative water infrastructure and create a sustainable, performance-based funding stream to incentivize safe water services globally.

Keywords: Africa; California; Climate change; SGMA; WASH; Water.