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UNCTAD Calls for Bold Global Action to Decarbonize Shipping and Ensure a Just Transition
The Review of Maritime Transport 2023 urges swift action and system-wide collaboration to decarbonize maritime transport amid growing carbon emissions and regulatory uncertainty.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Global
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TikTok’s E-Commerce Ambitions Stall as Global Backlash Grows
TikTok can advertise to more than 100 million users in Indonesia, but they now need to go on a different app or site to buy.
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- Technology
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mRNA Vaccine Manufacturing Comes to Africa
To run the facility, BioNTech is committed to hiring employees locally and within the African Union.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rooftop Solar Power Has a Dark Side
The attorneys general in many states have sued companies that they say targeted vulnerable populations and misrepresented the benefits of rooftop solar.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- North America
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Citi Grants $6 Million in Debt to Colombian Fintech Sempli
This transaction falls under the Scaling Enterprise program, backed by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Ford Foundation.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- financial inclusion, fintech, lending, MSMEs
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Using AI to Transform Impact Measurement: Overcoming Language Barriers in Global Development Research
Language and cultural barriers often create a “listening divide” between the providers and beneficiaries of global development programs. According to Daryl Collins and Pravarakya Reddy Battula at Decodis, these barriers make it difficult to develop effective anti-poverty solutions — and artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role in addressing them. They discuss how Decodis is using AI technology to facilitate survey data collection and analysis in its poverty alleviation research, and highlight the role human intelligence must still play in guiding these efforts.
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- Technology
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Brazilian Payments Firm, EBANX, Expands into 8 New African Countries
Besides Africa, the fintech firm also revealed its plans for further expansion across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Congo Plans New Copper-Cobalt Smelter to Serve Informal Miners
A US agreement to support a plan between Congo and neighboring Zambia to develop an electric-vehicle value chain was a key factor behind the firm’s decision to sign on to the smelter project.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-mobility, mining
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