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How Your Business Can Help End the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis: Highlights from a New Report
Businesses are key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6, which calls for reaching everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets by 2030. A new report from WaterAid, CEO Water Mandate and WBCSD spells out an “ideal” approach to water, sanitation and hygiene which businesses could implement in their supply chains – and how that investment can contribute to core business values, both ethically and financially.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
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How this Social Entrepreneur is Pioneering a Green Revolution
Founder of Geetanjali Envirotech, Raaginii Jaain was disturbed by the amount of waste generated in India and its poor management.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Loans for solar systems make power affordable in rural Kenya
Until recently, Njoroge’s home northwest of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, was poorly lit at night. Most people in Ndabibi are not connected to mains electricity, and rely on kerosene or small solar lamps to light their homes.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Transforming Waste Management, and Waste-Pickers’ Prospects, in Bengaluru
In February, Ennovent Global's Impact Investment Holding invested in Hasiru Dala Innovations, a Bengaluru-based company offering waste management services. The firm's initiatives, centered on the circular economy principle, provide waste management and urban gardening services and products, and also help ensure the livelihoods of waste-pickers, improve facilities for Bengaluru residents and divert over 90 percent of waste from landfills.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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To Feed the World, Improve Photosynthesis
By reworking the basic metabolism of crops, plant scientists hope to forestall devastating food shortages.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Shift to biogas helps revive forests
Fuelwood is a major source of carbon dioxide emissions in South Asia and East Africa.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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- forests
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Doing well by doing good: the multilateral banks respond to climate change
The multilateral development banks (MDBs) were seen as an important channel to support both mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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- Environment
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- climate change
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Rethinking the Flush Toilet: It’s Time to Move Sanitation Infrastructure Off the Grid
Virginia Gardiner, inventor of the Loowatt toilet system, says sanitation infrastructure has to move off the grid, just as mobile communications did in the 20th century. She points to a growing number of companies, including her own, that are piloting the provision of non-sewered sanitation to households thorough container-based sanitation, a system that presents the most viable alternative for urban areas in need of sanitation solutions.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise, WASH