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Uganda Secures $31 Million from Green Climate Fund for Cutting Deforestation — a First for Africa
The approval marks a historic milestone for both Uganda and Africa, as it represents the first GCF results-based payment project on the continent.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels
Fossil fuel giants like Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron have paused, delayed, or turned back previous commitments to reduce oil and gas production or increase renewable energy investments, while private banks ramped up lending to the fossil fuel sector by nearly 30 percent in 2024, the Lancet Countdown report said.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Global
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To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow
The global economy largely operates under a neoclassical economic structure, which emphasizes a reliance on markets, a deference to the private sector and a focus on constant growth. But according to Matt Orsagh and Steve Rocco at the Arketa Institute, this structure has a fatal flaw: It operates on a planet with finite resources and limited places to put our waste, but assumes that economic growth can go on forever. They argue that the world needs a new form of economics that reflects our environmental realities, one focused on "degrowth" — i.e., an effort to equitably downscale production and consumption in the Global North, without putting undue restrictions on the development of the Global South. They explore what this change might mean for the world's economy, the investing community — and countries in the Global North and South.
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- Energy, Environment
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With Asia and the Pacific on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis, WHO Unveils an Ambitious Blueprint for Action on Climate and Health
With one third of humanity in the world’s most climate-sensitive region, WHO calls for urgent cooperation to protect lives and drive global progress.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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TechnoServe Trains One Million Coffee Farmers, Boosting Incomes and the Environment
Global nonprofit marks major milestone in its effort to transform coffee livelihoods and protect the planet through regenerative farming practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation and International Development Research Centre Advance Solutions to Protect People’s Health from Climate Change Impacts in Senegal and Uganda
The $1.4M collaboration supports strengthening governance, evidence generation, and investment readiness of the two countries’ national health systems.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Finance Corporation Secures USD $100 Million Facility From Findev Canada, Marking Its Inaugural Transaction in the Canadian Market
The facility will strengthen AFC’s funding base and support a growing pipeline of renewable energy and low-carbon transport projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, further expanding the Corporation’s commitment to climate-resilient infrastructure development.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TerraCycle Foundation Launches Green School Program to Help Thai Students Address Plastic Pollution in Their Communities
The TerraCycle Global Foundation is bringing environmental education into the classroom with the launch of its Green School program—an immersive initiative that gives Thai students living near some of the world’s most polluted waterways the tools, knowledge, and confidence to lead change in their own communities.
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- Education, Environment, WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- hygiene, sanitation, waste, youth
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