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To Tackle Plastic Pollution, Partnership Helps Companies See Their Role in the Problem
The amount of plastic going into the environment could be reduced by 80% from 2020 levels by 2040, creating new jobs, saving governments billions of dollars and reducing plastics-related greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Environment, WASH
- Region
- Global
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- partnerships, recycling
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With Abundant Forests, Africa Looks to Grow Its Carbon Market
In Kenya’s Gazi Bay thousands of trees have been planted to offset carbon dioxide released by faraway governments and companies seeking to improve their climate credentials.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change, forests
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Analysis: These Two Start-Ups Are Making Farming More Sustainable. Here’s How
With climate change also posing a growing threat to the planet, feeding more people more sustainably has become more important than ever.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Global
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Cashing In on Sustainability: A Blended Finance Program Aims to Fight Climate Change by Catalyzing SME Investment in the Peruvian Amazon
Peru has lost an average of 100,000 hectares of rainforest per year since 2006, as illicit, extractive businesses are pushing the Amazon ecosystem closer to total collapse. But as Luis Garate at USAID CATALYZE Peru and Rocio Perez Torres at Palladium point out, without access to financing, the sustainable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that could take the place of illegal, extractive businesses are often left out of market growth. They discuss how CATALYZE is partnering with private sector financial service providers and investors to mobilize capital for sustainable SMEs in this vital region.
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- Environment, Investing
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From One Crisis to Another: Using Data from COVID to Meet the Looming Challenge of Food Insecurity
Due to a tragic combination of events, countries around the world are facing a widespread and serious food shortage, with the number of severely hungry people projected to swell to 323 million over the course of 2022. Scott Graham, Andree Simon and Anahit Tevosyan at FINCA share data – initially gathered to inform FINCA's COVID-19 response – that shows the impact of this crisis on low-income customers. They explore how financial inclusion organizations can adapt their support to help customers stave off the worst effects of the escalating food crisis.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Environment, Finance
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Patagonia Founder Just Donated the Entire Company, Worth $3 Billion, to Fight Climate Change
The privately held company’s stock will now be owned by a climate-focused trust and group of nonprofit organizations.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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‘Nearly Every Indicator of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Is off Track’: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Report
This year's report, "The Future of Progress," especially noted the impact of the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Yemen.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- SDGs
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Countries Growing 70% Of World’s Food Face ‘Extreme’ Heat Risk by 2045
Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- climate change
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