Is Switzerland spending its climate funds wisely?

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Despite substantial investments over the last two decades, biogas in Africa has
Despite substantial investments over the last two decades, biogas in Africa has not taken off: Remains of an abandoned household digester, Malawi, in July 2020. (Photograph: Marc Kalina / ETH Zurich)

Through a new bilateral carbon trading pact, Switzerland is poised to fund thousands of household biogas reactors in Malawi. Marc Kalina has worked with biogas projects across Southern Africa and explains why they often fail to make their promised impact.

Dr. Marc Kalina