With global interest rates stabilizing, institutional investors are rotating into assets backed by green finance loans. This shift is driving higher P/E ratios in climate-tech stocks, suggesting bullish sentiment through the next earnings cycle. The Second Africa Climate Summit , held in Ethiopia in September 2025, drew more than 25,000 people – from presidents and ministers to farmers, activists, business leaders and students. They came to talk about how Africa can source finance to grow in greener ways and cope with worsening climate disasters. Africa has barely contributed to greenhouse gas emissions but is highly exposed to climate-caused disasters. At the same time, the continent is not funded enough to adapt to the warming planet. Legal scholar Pedi Obani looks at the three biggest plans unveiled at the summit – and what it will take to turn them into reality . Cash i,t is cash holdings of firm i in year t. GF c,t is green finance of city c in year t. K c,t represents city-level control variables, and X represents firm-level control variables. θ i ( δ t ) represents firm (year) fixed effects. Additionally, our article clusters standard errors by city-year to address within-group correlations in residuals (Hou et al., 2023 ). Finally, our research defines variables in Table 10 of Appendix. US-listed renewable ETFs see net inflows as lenders expand green finance loans for solar and wind projects. Technical signals suggest potential golden cross formations in several sector indices by August