All SolutionsEconomic & Financial Analysis
Climate investments must make economic and financial sense.
SSA provides rigorous economic and financial analysis to support climate-informed decision-making and investment design – helping partners build the economic case for climate projects and structure investments that are financially viable, impactful and aligned with funder requirements.
Our economic analysis begins with a diagnostic phase – building economic baselines, sector trends, climate-risk pathways and projected impacts on productivity, infrastructure and livelihoods. This informs economic feasibility assessments, cost-benefit analysis, and climate-adjusted investment appraisals.
SSA also develops investment-grade financial models for climate projects and programmes – including cash-flow modelling, sensitivity and scenario analysis, risk stress-testing, and blended-finance structuring.
A defining feature of our approach is integrating climate risk into financial analysis — adjusting revenue forecasts, costs, and risk assumptions to reflect projected climate impacts. This helps partners assess how climate hazards will affect project performance and bankability, and design instruments and terms to ensure projects are both climate-responsive and financially sustainable.
Our work helps partners to:
- Demonstrate the economic case for adaptation and mitigation
- Prioritise investments with the highest climate-risk adjusted returns
- Structure financially sustainable projects
- Mobilise concessional and private capital
- Embed capacity for economic appraisal, financing modelling and investment analysis
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SSA supports institutions to understand and quantify these risks and impacts, and integrate them into national economic planning and policy frameworks.