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Renewables Increasingly Beat Even Cheapest Coal Competitors on Cost
Competitive power generation costs make investment in renewables highly attractive as countries target economic recovery from COVID-19, new IRENA report finds.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- coronavirus, IRENA, markets, renewable energy
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Viewpoint: Off-Grid Solar Is Vital for Driving Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery
The last compilation report in the Powering Opportunity Series highlights the wide-ranging benefits of solar home systems (SHS) and why the impact and potential of the off-grid solar sector must be protected.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Pandemic Strengthens African Bank Digitization
Within Sub-Saharan Africa, Mobile Money Providers Have Waived or Reduced Transaction Fees While Governments Are Encouraging Digital Payments as a Strategy to Wean off Person-To-Person Contact.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New AI Technology Helps Retailers and Shoppers Maintain Social Distancing
Keeping stores healthy with Voxel51
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, employment, technology
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The COVID-19 Crisis in Emerging Markets Demands a Once-in-a-Century Response
Will the IMF Pass the Pandemic Stress Test?
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Tech for Good During COVID-19: Snorkels, Thank You Notes and Headspace
Everyone is living a different pandemic right now. Your relationship with shelter-in-place mandates and social distancing can look wildly different depending on your profession, age, health and, often, privilege. It’s why a week of monotony for some of us might mean a week of madness for others. The best we can do, as exhaustion and Zoom fatigue sets in, is try to be patient, kind and thoughtful.
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, EdTech, health, pandemics, social business
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COVID-19 Has Stalled Un’s Goals to Reduce Global Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change
Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the Covid-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the “worst human and economic crisis of our lifetimes”. The number of people suffering hunger has increased, climate change is occurring faster than predicted, and inequality is increasing within and among countries, António Guterres said in his Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals or SDG 2020 report.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Finance, Health Care
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Viewpoint: Pandemic Is an Opportunity for Developing Nations
Now, dependence on China looks more and more dangerous.
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- Coronavirus