The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI), a research and policy initiative of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), announced the results of its first competition aimed at identifying and scaling innovative solutions at the intersection of poverty and climate change. K-CAI will fund 10 research studies to generate evidence and four projects that will take evidence-informed approaches to scale. Launched in July 2020 in partnership with King Philanthropies, the $25 million initiative is among the first major climate change initiatives focused on generating evidence in real-world settings, and translating…
