Top officials from African countries have committed to the largest rollout of renewable energy in the continent's history. The $35 billion in loans from The World Bank, African Development Bank, and other financial institutions will aim to provide electricity to half of the 600 million Africans without it, with half the money going toward village-level solar grids. The conference, however, barely mentioned climate change, highlighting a rich-world-poor-world divide on the politics and language of climate. Africa's leaders want investment and development to strengthen their economies and avoid further instability.