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Clean Cooling Collaborative Receives $30 Million Gift to Expand Access to Efficient, Climate-Friendly Cooling
By making cooling solutions more sustainable — and expanding access to them — we can protect people and the planet.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Press Release: TechnoServe, Bid Lab, and Argidius Launch Initiative to Boost Startups That Support Smallholder Farmers in Central America and Colombia
The VerdeXcelerate program will strengthen startups that are developing innovative tools to tackle the productivity, sustainability, and market access challenges faced by thousands of small and medium-scale farmers in six countries across the region.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Latin America
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New Report Warns of Mounting Planetary Crises — and Pathways to Hope
The 7th edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), produced by 287 scientists from 82 countries, finds that environmental decline is costing trillions of dollars annually and that pollution contributes to about 9 million premature deaths annually.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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Standard Chartered Leads $200 Million Article 6 Bond For Clean Cooking In Ghana
The instrument, issued by the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), is designed to channel private capital into projects that cut emissions while addressing public health and social challenges linked to traditional cooking fuels.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Finland and EU Launch €2 Billion Digitalisation Programme Across Emerging Markets
The programme is part of the EU’s Global Gateway strategy, which aims to strengthen sustainable connectivity with partner countries and marks the EU’s largest guarantee initiative for the digital sector to date.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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British International Investment Achieves Over £300 Million in Green Energy Commitments Across South-East Asia
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) announced it has committed £308 million in climate finance across South-East Asia during its current strategy period, advancing its ambition to invest up to £500 million by 2026.
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- Environment, Finance
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- South Asia
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Gavi and World Bank Group Deepen Collaboration to Boost Health System Resilience and Regional Vaccine Manufacturing
World Bank Group and Gavi sign a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen immunisation, primary healthcare and regional vaccine manufacturing.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Moniepoint MFB Launches All-in-One Moniebook Platform to Empower MSMEs in Nigeria
The tool enables business owners to manage inventory, track sales, process payments, monitor staff roles, manage customer relationships, and generate real-time reports from one system.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech, microfinance, MSMEs, scale
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