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What Conditions Will Bring More Investors into the Sustainable Seafood Sector?
As sustainable seafood markets grow, philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, and entrepreneurs see opportunities for impact-minded investors to make profits while creating positive change in the oceans.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Motivating Corporations to Do Good
Is it naïve to expect corporations to assist in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges of the day?
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- Environment
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Unrestricted Funding, Famous Alums Fuel Coveted Fellowship For Social Entrepreneurs
Echoing Green. If you’re apt in poetry or if you just Googled the name, you’d know it was the title of a poem by William Blake that begins with “The sun does arise, And make happy the skies.” That theme of embracing a better world translates to another Echoing Green — a nonprofit that empowers social entrepreneurs, in part by offering what have become prestigious fellowships.
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- Environment
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World Bank review shows flaws in social, environment safeguards process
(Reuters) - The World Bank has systemic defects in its procedures to ensure that people and the environment are not harmed in development projects, according to an internal review obtained by Reuters.
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- Environment
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‘Sustainability’ Remains the Holy Grail: But the road to achieving it is paved with divergent visions
When global health leaders gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Partners’ Forum to shape the post-2015 agenda for maternal and child health, sustainability was much discussed as a chief element in ending preventable deaths. But just below the surface lay a truth even more profound: Sustainability manifests differently for just about everyone.
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- Environment, Health Care
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OPIC: Let’s leverage impact investing to make aid funding sustainable
Much of the impact investing field has been driven by public sector actors, which have an important role to play both in the way they deploy their capital and the work that they can do to build the industry.
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- Environment
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Electrify Africa, Energize Africa and Power Africa: Partnering With Africa for the Long Run
Monday, 30 June, was the first year anniversary of President Obama’s Power Africa initiative, the president’s signature initiative for the continent which seeks to expand electricity to address poverty alleviation and economic growth.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nine African countries win renewable energy development funding
The low-income nations were awarded new funding and operational support at the semi-annual Climate Investment Funds governing body meeting.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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