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Incofin Launches Pioneering Fund to Provide Drinking Water for 30 Million People
W2AF invests in innovative water businesses that provide affordable, safe drinking water to underserved populations.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
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- accelerators, innovation, water
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Analysis: Mexico Makes Lots of Electric Cars, but Few Mexicans Drive Them
The zero emissions cars remain too expensive for most Mexicans and they are impractical to drive in much of the country, which lacks enough charging stations.
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- Technology, Transportation
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- Latin America
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Press Release: ENGIE & ATEC Sign Landmark Multi-Country Digital MRV Carbon Credit Agreement
The first major deal signed under Gold Standard’s new metered methodology.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Water’s Big Moment Risks Getting Lost in the Weeds
It’s just typical. You wait almost five decades to make the case for urgent action and investment on the global stage in the world’s financial capital, and along comes a banking crisis to steal your thunder.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, innovation, water
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Diaspora Remittances, Impact of SVB’s Failure on African Startups in Focus as African Diaspora Investment Symposium Begins
The closure of SVB Bank triggered panic on the African continent, and that fear is not without reason.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- failure, fintech, remittances, startups
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Nigeria Launches $618 Million Tech Fund for Young Investors
Nigeria launched a $618 million fund on Tuesday to support tech and creative sectors for young investors who struggle to raise capital in Africa's largest economy.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- creative economy, failure, startups, youth
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China’s Telecom Giant Sunwalk Group To Invest USD 2 Billion In Pakistan’s Telecom Industry
Pakistan will develop an optical fibre network covering an area of 1,00,000 kilometers as Chinese Sunwalk group to invest USD 2 billion in telecom industry.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- infrastructure
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Outgrowing the Flower Pot: Why Just Selling Productive Equipment to Smallholder Farmers is Not Enough
A new wave of companies are bringing equipment powered by renewable, decentralized energy to smallholders, and these devices can significantly boost farmers' yields and product quality. But as Daniel Waldron, Christopher Emmott, Priyanka Dudeja, Paraag Sabhlok and Chris Wayne at Acumen explain, just like a tree growing in a flower pot, this new growth can become a burden if it has nowhere to go. They argue that productive equipment must be combined with market access interventions to truly benefit smallholders, and highlight two innovative companies that are demonstrating the impact of this approach.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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