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Investors Start to Take Climate Change and Other Social Issues Personally
Spurred by extreme weather and new science bolstering fears of catastrophic events, more investors are taking climate change and other societal issues to heart when they decide to where to put their money.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Canada’s SkyPower In $5bn Deal For Renewable Energy In Nigeria
VENTURES AFRICA – Following an agreement with Delta State, one of Nigeria’s largest oil producing regions, SkyPower, a Canadian power firm focused on solar energy projects, will be investing $5 billion in developing a 3000MW solar-powered electricity facility.
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- Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy
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Delhi’s air among the dirtiest in world: WHO study
An effort by the World Health Organisation to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi admits to having the dirtiest air, while Beijing's measurements, like its skies, are far from clear.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Crowdfunding could break stranglehold of the ‘big six’ energy firms
A new funding stream could fill the gap left by the major banks who are refusing to lend to community energy firms
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- Energy, Environment
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- crowdfunding
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India’s SKS Microfinance Posts First Full Year of Profit Since Andhra Pradesh Crisis
SKS Microfinance Ltd has posted its first full year of profit after its business took a beating due to the microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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Investing in Nature: New Sources of Capital
Two hundred and fifty billion dollars: that's the gap between the estimated need to support global conservation efforts and what's currently devoted to these activities annually, according to a recent study.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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Opinion: How Rising Food Prices Can Bring About the End of Poverty
One of the world’s cruellest dilemmas is that the great majority of its starvation and malnutrition cases are found among farmers.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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OPINION: How to Keep the Asian Development Bank Relevant in a Changing Asia
If any economist had said when the Asian Development Bank was founded, that in just 45 years China would become the world's second-largest economy and India the fourth in terms of purchasing power parity, he would have been dismissed.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- lending
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