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With Asia and the Pacific on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis, WHO Unveils an Ambitious Blueprint for Action on Climate and Health
With one third of humanity in the world’s most climate-sensitive region, WHO calls for urgent cooperation to protect lives and drive global progress.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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TechnoServe Trains One Million Coffee Farmers, Boosting Incomes and the Environment
Global nonprofit marks major milestone in its effort to transform coffee livelihoods and protect the planet through regenerative farming practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation and International Development Research Centre Advance Solutions to Protect People’s Health from Climate Change Impacts in Senegal and Uganda
The $1.4M collaboration supports strengthening governance, evidence generation, and investment readiness of the two countries’ national health systems.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Finance Corporation Secures USD $100 Million Facility From Findev Canada, Marking Its Inaugural Transaction in the Canadian Market
The facility will strengthen AFC’s funding base and support a growing pipeline of renewable energy and low-carbon transport projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, further expanding the Corporation’s commitment to climate-resilient infrastructure development.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TerraCycle Foundation Launches Green School Program to Help Thai Students Address Plastic Pollution in Their Communities
The TerraCycle Global Foundation is bringing environmental education into the classroom with the launch of its Green School program—an immersive initiative that gives Thai students living near some of the world’s most polluted waterways the tools, knowledge, and confidence to lead change in their own communities.
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- Education, Environment, WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- hygiene, sanitation, waste, youth
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Biodiversity Gets Its ISO Moment: Nature Accounting Arrives
By formalizing the emerging field of nature accounting, it could prove almost as consequential for corporate sustainability as the Paris Agreement was for climate, especially if it triggers the same kind of data-driven accountability shift.
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- Environment, Finance
- Region
- Global
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Report: Reimagining the Future of Entrepreneurship Support in East Africa
A new report from WDI, "Reimagining the Future of ESOs in East Africa," integrates insights from accelerators, incubators, investors, ESO donors and intermediaries in the East African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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UNDP Secures $3.2 Million for Climate and Health Funding in Afghanistan
This funding will help strengthen Afghanistan’s response to the health impacts of climate change, especially among vulnerable communities such as internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees, benefiting more than 1.4 million people across 15 provinces.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East