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Ghana Launches National Union for Informal Waste Workers
According to GAYO, the union will provide a unified platform for informal waste workers to engage government, municipalities, industries and development partners.
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Wind and Solar Projects in Kenya and South Africa Don’t Always Benefit the Communities That Host Them – Study
If green energy investments are to deliver on their promise of development, governments and investors need to start by asking communities what they consider a fair deal. Land, livelihoods, culture and ways of life may be just as important as financial returns.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Fund Grants $4.3 Million to Strengthen Integration of Natural Capital Into Decision-Making in 13 African Countries
The strategy aims to strengthen policy-making systems, statistical systems, institutional frameworks, and knowledge-generation mechanisms needed by the regional member countries participating in the project and the African Development Bank Group to assess natural capital and incorporate it into public policy-making.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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KCB Bank Kenya and European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Sign US$100 Million Facility to Expand SME Financing
Under the framework, 35 per cent of the facility will be directed towards women and youth-led enterprises, while 30 per cent will finance eligible green investments, enabling businesses to adopt climate-smart technologies and sustainable business practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Go Green Backs BioLite’s Clean Cooking Rollout in Zambia Under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement
The carbon credits generated by the project will be sold to Switzerland’s KliK Foundation under a Mitigation Outcomes Purchase Agreement (MOPA) entered into between BioLite and the KliK Foundation.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rize Secures $31 Million Series B to Expand Low-Emission Rice Network in Vietnam and Indonesia
Rize works with farmers to adopt Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), an irrigation technique endorsed by the International Rice Research Institute and CGIAR that periodically drains paddies rather than keeping them permanently flooded.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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The Blind Spot in the EU’s New Deforestation Regulations: Laws and Satellites Don’t Save Forests — People Do
The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) represents an ambitious legislative effort to protect our planet’s remaining forests. But Priscillia Moulin at MosaiX highlights a potential flaw in the regulations: To meet the EUDR's data requirements and prove that their supply chains are deforestation-free, major commodity buyers are turning to remote sensing and satellite AI — and if these technologies detect any tree-cover loss, the path of least resistance is often to permanently exclude that supplier. She argues that this creates the illusion of compliance while pushing vulnerable small farmers into the grey market, as satellite algorithms can identify changes in forest cover but cannot determine intent or causality, or assess other complex realities on the ground. She proposes three ways companies can comply with the EUDR without freezing smallholders out of the EU's premium, regulated markets.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Analysis: Green Crime Goes Global
Environmental crime has become so extensive that it is reshaping the global policy agenda, evolving from a niche concern to an urgent topic of international diplomacy.
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- Environment, Finance, Technology
- Region
- Global
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