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Jeff Bezos Promises $2 Billion To Fix Africa’s Forests and Food After Meeting Prince Charles
The world's second-richest man has upped his pledge to help fund reforestation, and agricultural transformation, in Africa.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BlackRock Raises $673 Million for Climate-focused Infrastructure Fund
The world's largest money manager hopes the fund, announced on Tuesday and dubbed the Climate Finance Partnership, will show how to mobilize private capital in developing countries to tackle climate change, a sticking point at United Nations climate talks underway in Glasgow.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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Beyond Energy Efficiency: Key Trends and Pathways to Scale in the Solar Appliance Market
Solar appliance uptake is a key element of global energy access efforts. But according to Yasemin Erboy Ruff and Lauren Boucher at CLASP, no appliance is close to reaching market saturation, despite considerable gains in recent years. They share highlights from Efficiency for Access' 2021 Solar Appliance Technology Briefs, which characterize the market, trends and pathways to scale for 11 off-grid-appropriate solar appliances and enabling technologies, and explore what these findings mean for the solar appliance market and the customers it serves.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Citi Analysts Back New Development Bank To Meet Climate Goals
A new multilateral climate action development bank is needed to help get money to emerging markets more effectively, analysts at U.S. bank Citigroup said on Tuesday ahead of an upcoming U.N. climate summit.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, SDGs
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Analysis: What EU’s Farm-to-Fork Strategy Will Mean for South Africa Agriculture
The strategy was launched in 2020 and is at the core of a broader initiative called the European Green Deal, which aims to reduce the environmental and carbon footprint in the way food is produced and consumed.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dutch Pension Giant Spurns Fossil Fuels as Funds Shift Before COP26
Dutch pension fund ABP will divest 15 billion euros ($17.5 billion) of investments in fossil fuel producers by 2023, it said on Tuesday, as many of the world’s biggest investors set out new climate policies ahead of next week’s COP26 summit.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Impact Reporting for All: Developing an Approach That Works for Both SMEs and Their Funders
In 2020, nearly $2.3 trillion was invested with the intention of generating positive social or environmental impact – but impact measurement was only used across 28% of that total amount. What is stopping the managers of the other 72% of impact capital from measuring their investments’ impact – and how can those obstacles be addressed? Kevin Horgan, Geoff Kendall and Joanna Robertson at Future-Fit Foundation explain why the difficulty of impact reporting is at the heart of this issue, and present a solution that they believe could revolutionize the impact investment landscape.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Analysis: Staying True to the Paris Agreement Could Hobble Booming Carbon Offset Market
The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. Researchers and NGOs propose new ways of letting companies invest in energy and climate projects in the global south – without letting them use carbon credits towards their emission budgets.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Global
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