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New climate innovation centre launched in Ethiopia
A new climate innovation centre which aims to help jumpstart clean technology and climate-smart ventures has been launched in Ethiopia. Called the Ethiopia Climate Innovation Center (ECIC), it is expected to help more than 3.1 million people increase resilience to climate change and create more than 12,000 jobs in the next 10 years.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Startup wants West Michigan devices to improve medical care in developing world
Three young entrepreneurs want to leverage the strength of West Michigan’s medical device capabilities to commercialize new products that could help improve care in the developing world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Food
Newly engineered foods. A TV show satirizing big AG. Farming practices that reduce greenhouse gases. Here are the companies that are cooking up new ideas and changing how we think about our food.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition
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More Kenyans To Benefit From New Private Sector Healthcare Initiative
Excelsior Group’s Foundation and the Kenya Association of Private Hospitals (KAPH) have reached an agreement to improve healthcare accessibility for 30 percent of Kenya’s population. Private sector networks account for more than 50 percent of Kenya’s healthcare providers serving the needs of Kenyans living on lower incomes.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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How Millennium Challenge Corp. Partnership Will Help PEPFAR ‘go local’ in South Africa
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Agency for International Development work together to help strengthen public health systems in South Africa by funding ARV distribution and equipment.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, supply chains
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D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Applications Open from MIT
Applications due April 9 for a 12-month program that provides $20,000 to develop sustainable social ventures
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- Education, Environment
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Financing Sustainable Fisheries With Impact Investments
What’s good for the fish is good for the fishing communities — and for impact investors. That’s the thesis of three new vehicles for investing in sustainable fisheries that will be tested in the Philippines, Chile, and Brazil over the next two years and then offered to investors more broadly.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Bonds Tied to Green Investments Are Booming
Christopher Flensborg of SEB, a Swedish bank, calls it another tipping-point for “green bonds”, and he should know: he invented them.
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- Environment
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- impact investing
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