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Mission Blue and IUCN Join Forces to Put Coastal Communities at the Heart of Ocean Action With the One Ocean Partnership
Mission Blue® and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today announced a new collaboration to advance the One Ocean Partnership - a global effort to accelerate locally led ocean conservation by connecting coastal communities with the science, expertise, partnerships and finance they need to scale solutions and develop regenerative seascapes.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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NADF, German Firm Partner on Climate-Resilient Agricultural Finance
"The partnership is also expected to support the development of new or improved financial products for smallholder farmers, particularly those designed around the growing risks posed by climate change to agricultural production."
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up, as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Global
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Equity and IFAD Launch $200 Million Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism for 260,000 East African Farmers
The mechanism comes as climate-related shocks increasingly affect agricultural production, rural incomes and food security across East Africa, while climate finance remains difficult for small-scale producers to access.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: World Set to Cross 1.5°C Global Warming, but Can Still Limit, Adapt to and Return From Higher Temperatures
The report puts best-case scenario peak temperature rise at 1.8°C; others suggest over 2°C.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Every US $1 Invested in Climate and Clean-Air Action Can Return US $15
Released on the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, Hidden assets: The economic and health case for climate and clean air action is the first comprehensive global economic assessment of integrated climate and clean-air action.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Analysis: Why AI Carbon Footprinting Tools are Prone to Misleading Results
"The automation of the normally tedious process of creating product carbon footprints (PCFs) is one of the more tantalizing sustainability applications of artificial intelligence. But users of these services should treat the results with caution, suggests a study from researchers at Watershed, a carbon accounting platform."
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Global
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Audit Exposes Fundamental Flaws in Green India Mission’s Execution
"A CAG audit found India’s Green India Mission achieved only around 5% of its afforestation target and missed more than 97% of its ecosystem-restoration goal, citing poor planning and weak monitoring."
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- Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- climate change, forests, mining
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