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The Overlapping Impacts of Off-Grid Solar: Four Ways Innovative Funding Can Enable the Sector to Advance Global Climate and Poverty Goals
How can the off-grid solar sector achieve its energy access and climate-related goals? Laura Fortes and Drew Corbyn at GOGLA argue that there’s one clear answer to that question: more and better finance. They discuss four ways innovative funding models can enable the sector to rapidly and radically accelerate progress toward universal energy access and other development goals.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Report: Indigenous Peoples are Being Excluded from a Global Pool of Climate Cash
The U.N. says the world is spending trillions on climate action and only a fraction is going to Indigenous communities.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: Heading to Climate Week? Here’s a Cheat Sheet
What you need to know about what's coming up at Climate Week in New York next week (if you can attend in person, or not).
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- Environment, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- North America
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Strengthening the Front Lines in the Fight Against Climate Change: A Call for Investment in Coastal Communities’ Resilience
This week, both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit and Climate Week NYC are happening in New York, at the end of the hottest summer on record. As Florian Kemmerich at Palladium and Bamboo Capital Partners points out, there are good reasons for the alignment between the two events and the growing urgency of the discussion — particularly in a coastal city like New York. He explores how coastal communities bear the brunt of escalating climate impacts, and how investing in their climate resilience can support progress toward the other SDGs.
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- Environment, Investing
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Grow Asia Launches US $1 Billion Impact Fund
Public-private blended financing model targets Southeast Asian SME agri-businesses.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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FSD Africa Investments Commits $19.5 Million Investment to Green Project Financing
FSDAi’s investment in Acre will facilitate the flow of ECA finance for social and green infrastructure.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank Announces $1 Billion to Boost Access to Climate Finance for Youth Businesses
The additional financing will boost YouthAdapt, a joint initiative between the Bank and the Global Centre on Adaptation.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change, MSMEs, youth
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Catalyst Fund Reaches First Close to Back Climate-Tech Startups in Africa
The pan-African fund is targeting pre-seed startups and has already invested in 10 startups from six countries.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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