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Press Release: Renewable Energy Jobs Continue Growth To 11.5 Million Worldwide
IRENA’s annual jobs review confirms long-term growth trend; strong policy action essential to ensure continued employment expansion in the COVID-19 era.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Environment
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‘Doktari’ Turns Plastic Bags Into Building Materials
Meet Dr Oscar Joshua Aghan, who uses plastic bags that are still in circulation to make building materials.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Pakistan Making Shift To Clean Power Production and Lower Energy Costs With World Bank Support
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $450 million in financing to support Pakistan’s transition to renewable energy resources that reduce its reliance on fossil fuel imports and lower costs of electricity production.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Press Release: MetLife To Reduce Emissions by 30 Percent and Originate $20 Billion of New Green Investments by 2030
Over the next 10 years, MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) has committed to reduce its location-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent from 2019 levels, originate U.S. $20 billion in new MetLife Investment Management (MIM)–managed green investments1, and allocate U.S. $5 million to develop products and partnerships that drive climate solutions.
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- Environment, Investing
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Vietnamese Farmers To Get Help From Bayer in Fight Against Saltwater-Drought, COVID-19
Around 80,000 smallholder farmers whose livelihoods and welfare have been severely impacted by COVID-19 will benefit from a global initiative by Bayer titled ‘Better Farms, Better Lives.’
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Analysis: 4 Ways Our COVID-19 Recovery Can Tackle Climate Change and Global Inequality
The COVID-19 crisis has shown how deep inequalities make society as a whole more vulnerable —providing important lessons for building resilience in an era of climate change.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Palm Oil: Sustainability Is a Shared Problem
Oil palm producers have for the last 15 years become the lightning rod for the public’s growing anger on issues relating to deforestation, global warming, subpar labor practices and transboundary haze.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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ESG Assets Expected To Top $53 Trillion by 2022: Celent
Social, economic and market factors are accelerating investor appetite for a more sustainable approach to investing
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- Environment, Investing