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Is it time to rethink humanitarian insurance?
The human and financial costs of climate and other natural disasters are increasing. These disasters disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable populations- who lose much more of their wealth when disaster strikes.
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- Environment, Financial Inclusion
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Can Tourism Alleviate Global Poverty?
International tourism may be booming but the benefits don’t always reach the local populations due to leakage. Griffith University’s Susanne Becken explains what leakage is and how to turn the situation around.
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- Environment
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Paying poor landowners not to cut trees a cheap way to save forests
Ugandan villagers paid $28 a year not to cut trees. Study finds that's cheaper than mitigating climate change.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Impact Report on Economic, Environmental and Social Performance of Clean Technology Companies Released by Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
"Measurement of social and environmental impact beyond financial metrics provides investors with a broader understanding of the true risks, costs and opportunities involved, thus enabling more informed investment decisions," states UBS Managing Director, Andrew Lee, Head of Impact Investing.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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New study examines ecological underpinnings of world’s rural poverty
"The livelihoods of the rural poor are literally consumed by other organisms in complex ecological systems," explained Matthew Bonds, a visiting assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and co-author of the study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. "The environment's influence on poor rural economies makes them fundamentally different from the economies of more developed countries."
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- Environment, Financial Inclusion
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Village women transform into clean energy entrepreneurs in Nepal initiative
Since it began operations in 2012, Empower Generation has created over 20 women-led businesses, employing 300 female distribution agents who go from village-to-village, selling, maintaining and collecting repayments for products.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment
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- South Asia
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Japan vows to ramp up efforts to export renewable energy technology
Emphasizing that energy demand will only grow in China and Southeast Asia, Kishida noted in a message read to a symposium hosted by the ministry in Tokyo that "Japan's environmental technologies will greatly contribute to Asian nations' (transition)."
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Off-Grid Devices Draw Drinking Water from Dry Air
Robust systems are being developed that rely on readily available energy from the sun, are scalable and can work even in arid regions—where a third of the world’s population lives, often in poverty.
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- Environment, Technology
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