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Five west African countries ban ‘dirty diesel’ from Europe
Five west African countries have announced measures to end the practice of European oil companies and traders exporting “African quality” diesel – highly polluting fuels that could never be sold in Europe.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How This Latina Turned Her Aha Moment Into A Profitable, Socially Responsible Business
In 2010, when Francesca Kennedy went back to Guatemala to visit her family, she found that the lake she had been baptized in, Lake Atitlan, was deemed by NASA to be one of the world’s worst natural disasters. The blue green algae that now inhabited the once clear lake was the first spark into what would later become her mission-driven entrepreneurial career.
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- Environment
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- Latin America
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NGOs in East Africa must monitor health issues
The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers has directed that non-governmental organisations in the region incorporate health issues into their projects. NGOs will be expected to integrate issues like population control, disease prevention and treatment in their project work plans in order to have a direct impact on humanity.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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West Africa to target human and animal health together to fight Ebola and Zika
West African leaders have agreed a new approach to infectious diseases in an attempt to avert any repetition of the disastrous Ebola outbreak. Human, animal and environmental health will all be considered together, and countries in the region will work collaboratively to catch outbreaks of diseases including avian flu, Zika and Ebola in their early stages.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Weekly Roundup: Mossy Green Solutions, Trickle-up Economics, World Toilet Day Woes
What’s innovative about moss, and how can the flowerless plant help pull people out of poverty? Electric vehicles can change the world if they’re adopted by those living at the base of the pyramid? Should all social venture investors separate financial from social impacts in their annual reports? Several questions and a few answers in this week's roundup.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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Trump Election May Spur SRI Investing
Donald Trump's election may spur more socially responsible investing, says Lisa Woll, CEO of US SIF, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investing.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Sustainable Investments Surged by Third to $8.7 Trillion in 2016
Sustainable investments surged by more than $2 trillion in the last two years as money managers worked to accommodate U.S. institutions’ demand for assets that meet environmental, social and corporate-governance goals.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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Indian Company Protoprint Transforms Waste into 3D Printing Filament for Commercial Use
This week, we reported on New Zealand-based Waikato University’s revolutionary FDM technology-based 3D printing method that allows anyone to print complex objects by converting waste material into thermoplastic filament, and we’ve seen several initiatives around the world focused on bringing waste material into reuse via 3D printing.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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