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We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided—so why isn’t this happening?
With the global population to reach 9 billion in decades, global food systems must change in order to feed the planet. Is agroecology the solution?
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- food security, SDGs
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Reconciling Paris Agreement goals for temperature, emissions—study finds two targets don’t always go hand in hand
As society faces the challenge of limiting warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, new research finds an apparent contradiction: Achieving that goal doesn't necessarily require cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero, as called for in the Paris Agreement. But under certain conditions, even zero emissions might not be enough.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- climate change
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WASH Away Inequity: Lack of Access to Safe Water is the Most Crippling Obstacle Limiting Human Potential
On World Water Day, consider that 844 million people (nearly 1 in 9) lack a drinking water source that is accessible within a 30-minute round trip from their home. But though this problem can be solved by installing a tap or rain harvesting system, the upfront cost of up to $200 is often prohibitive for people living in poverty. Water.org co-founder and CEO Gary White highlights the power of the poor, when given affordable financing, to provide their own solution to the global water crisis.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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Press release: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Names Dymphna van der Lans as Chief Executive Officer
Dymphna brings more than 25 years of experience managing and leading global development, energy, and climate initiatives in the nonprofit and private sectors. In her most recent role, she led international corporate engagement with the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate & Energy team. Previously, she worked with the Clinton Foundation as CEO of the Clinton Climate Initiative and has also served as the senior director for public policy programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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- Environment
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Viewpoint: Let’s turn the World Bank into a mobilizer of private investment to fight climate change
At the outset of the One Planet Summit in Paris last December, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres outlined many of the grave challenges posed by climate change. Then the world’s top diplomat offered what was, coming from him, an unexpected solution, one that wasn’t directly related to strengthening political will or environmental regulations, technological breakthroughs or alternative energy sources.
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- Environment, Investing
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New Principles for Sustainable Fisheries Investment Unveiled at World Ocean Summit
Although billions of public and private dollars are invested in fisheries every year, more often than not, sustainability is neither the driver nor the intended outcome of those investment dollars. That means we are currently missing a major opportunity to solve the global overfishing and food security problem, which requires significantly more and better-aligned investment from a variety of capital providers.
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- Environment, Investing
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Health savings outweigh costs of limiting global warming: study
The estimated cost of measures to limit Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions can be more than offset by reductions in deaths and disease from air pollution, researchers said on Saturday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- climate change
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New climate-smart technologies will boost agriculture and jobs in West Africa
A new programme is being launched to equip farmers in Africa with climate-smart agricultural tools and technologies.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change
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