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Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Jointly Mobilize U.S. $11.5 Million to Support the WHO-WMO Climate and Health Programme
The funding will help the WHO-WMO Joint Programme to rapidly accelerate and scale weather and climate insights that feed into health decision-making processes in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition: The Case for Responsible Mining and Increased Circularity
"The increasing demand for critical minerals necessitates a concerted effort to scale recycling, writes ICMM’s innovation director Bryony Clear Hill. But recycled materials will never meet 100% of the demand, so a renewed focus on more responsible primary production is also needed."
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Waves in the Regenerative and Sustainable Ocean Economy
"The World Economic Forum, the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, Builders Vision and Katapult Ocean have collaborated to showcase the diversity, maturity, and bankability of investment opportunities within the regenerative and sustainable ocean economy in a new report, Making Waves in the Regenerative & Sustainable Ocean Economy: Transformative Ocean Investment Opportunities."
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First-Of-A-Kind AI Driven Platform Linking Blue Economy Projects and Investors Unveiled
Salesforce’s agentic AI technology is being embedded within the Platform so that projects and investors from around the world can be linked in a way which was previously not possible.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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SWEN Capital Raises $183 Million for New Ocean Impact Venture Fund
"SWEN’s Blue Ocean 2 fund invests primarily in Series A funding rounds, targeting startups bringing solutions to address key threats affecting ocean biodiversity, including over-fishing, pollution, and climate change."
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- Global
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The OpenAg Foundation Launches Raising $1.3 Million USD for Water Security Project to Help One Million in Southern Africa
The boreholes will supply clean water to people, livestock, and wildlife, enabling farmers to irrigate crops and easing tensions in regions where scarce resources have fuelled conflict.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Costa Rica and World Bank Pioneer Marine Environmental Payments to Protect Mangroves and Coastal Livelihoods
"The initiative extends the country’s results-based finance mechanisms from terrestrial to coastal and marine ecosystems."
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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Analysis: The Role of Digitalisation in Collective Action to End Plastic Pollution
On World Environment Day, the APC Environmental Sustainability Group invites all stakeholders to reflect on the impacts of digital technologies on the planet, and their role in contributing to collective action to end plastic pollution.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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