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Health savings outweigh costs of limiting global warming: study
The estimated cost of measures to limit Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions can be more than offset by reductions in deaths and disease from air pollution, researchers said on Saturday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- climate change
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New climate-smart technologies will boost agriculture and jobs in West Africa
A new programme is being launched to equip farmers in Africa with climate-smart agricultural tools and technologies.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change
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Press release: Impact Investor Coalition Seeks to Bring Plant-Based and Clean Meat to China
A collaborative effort between Dao Ventures, Moonspire Social Ventures, and New Crop Capital, Dao Foods is introducing innovative and climate-friendly protein products, primarily plant-based and clean meat (PBCM), into the Chinese market.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Jibu Announces Completion of $7 Million Series B Financing
Jibu, a social enterprise that has reinvented the traditional franchise model to equip emerging market entrepreneurs to build solutions that close infrastructure gaps and ensure access to basic human necessities, announces the completion of its $7 million Series B financing round, bringing its total raised to more than $10 million. The Company will use the funds to accelerate its launch of 1,000 drinking water franchises in at least a dozen new countries by 2022.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New York’s Giant Pension Fund Doubles Climate-Smart Investment
The $2 billion boost was announced at the Investors Summit on Climate Risk, where top fund managers discussed finance for a low-carbon, clean energy future.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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How microcredit can help poor countries after natural disasters
BOTH, in different ways, worry about liquidity. And global warming may, indeed, be bringing meteorologists and financiers together. On January 18th, VisionFund, a microlending charity, and Global Parametrics, a venture that crunches climate and seismic data, launched what they billed as the “world’s largest non-governmental climate-insurance programme”. The scheme will offer microfinance to about 4m people across six countries in Asia and Africa affected by climate-change-related calamities.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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These Bold Ideas Aim To Make Plastic Waste A Thing Of The Past
The winners of a recent contest hosted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation all start with one fundamental concept: We can–and must–replace non-recyclable materials on the market with biodegradable alternatives.
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- Environment
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The world is failing to achieve a circular economy—here’s how to change that
Less than a tenth of the billions of tonnes of resources pumped into the global economy every year are reused, and this waste incurs a huge economic, environmental, and social cost. How do we make the global economy more circular?
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- Energy, Environment