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Rotten Eggs: E-Waste From Europe Poisons Ghana’s Food Chain
According to a new report by two environmental groups tracking the disposal of e-waste, chicken eggs from the Agbogbloshie slum in Ghana’s capital, Accra – where residents break up waste to recover metals – contain dangerous levels of dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), among other harmful substances.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- waste
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Goldman Sachs Earth Day Impact Report Shows Change Isn’t Easy
While Goldman has increased investment in green operations to $1.2 billion in 2018 from $701 million in 2017, it had more trouble gaining energy efficiency and managing carbon emissions.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Technology Eases Farming ‘Drudgery’ and Risk as Climate Threats Grow
As climate change makes farming far tougher and more young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make the work more secure and appealing can help, agricultural specialists told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford this week.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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This Kenyan Company Won a Major Fashion Award for Making Fabric from Nettles
Green Nettle won the award along with four other firms that made expanding children’s clothes (United Kingdom), a biodegradable vegan leather (Peru), a digital system that helps make garments recyclable from sketch to scrap (Germany) besides a toxic-free membrane for outdoor wear (Switzerland).
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Development-bank climate funds seek new dollars, as competition heats up
The $8.3-billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF), currently the world’s largest multilateral climate financing instrument, help developing states pursue low-carbon development that protects them better from wilder weather and rising seas.
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- Environment, Finance, Investing
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Here’s why Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and other investors are pouring billions into clean-tech ventures
The $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, founded by Gates, Bezos and other philanthropists, has invested in 14 companies involved in everything from battery storage to fusion energy.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Tackling the water crisis will be just as hard as it sounds
More than 2 billion people around the world lack what the UN considers “safely managed drinking water supplies,” and millions of people across the United States—as much as a quarter of the country, by some estimates—drink water contaminated beyond legal levels.
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- Environment, WASH
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- startups
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Ranking: These publicly traded companies are doing the most to help prevent climate change
The ranking, called the Carbon Clean 200, is updated every six months. The difference this time is that the ranking has broadened its definition of carbon-free.
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- Environment
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