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Report: The Newest Biodiversity Reporting Standard: What You Should Know
In an increasingly complex nature reporting landscape, GRI raises the bar and aims to complement other frameworks.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Kenya Aims for Manufacturing Boom to Boost GDP by 2027
The government Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to elevate Kenya’s manufacturing sector, aiming to increase its contribution to the GDP to 15pc by the year 2027.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Statement on New Cookstoves Study
Verra gives a response to the recent research paper from University of California, Berkeley, looking at clean cookstove methodologies, published in the journal Nature Sustainability.
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- Energy, Technology
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Cookstove Carbon Offsets Overstate Climate Benefit by 1,000%, Study Finds
Cookstove projects are one of the fastest-growing carbon offset schemes but research finds carbon benefits are vastly overstated.
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- Energy, Technology
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Three West African Junta-Led States Quit ECOWAS Regional Block
Since the coups - and despite sanctions, negotiations and threats of military intervention - the military leaders have failed to provide a clear timetable for a return to constitutional rule.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: YPO: Only One in 25 Small and Medium-sized Business Leaders Say They Measure Company Carbon Emissions
Lack of measurement of environmental and energy performance among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) hampering ability to contribute to the energy transition and tackle climate change.
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- Environment
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Safaricom Triples M-Pesa Users in Ethiopia to 3.1 Million
Safaricom’s Ethiopia subsidiary launched the mobile money service on August 15 last year.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can Mr. Beast Break Through on the Chinese Internet?
The world’s biggest YouTuber is breaking into the one market Western content creators have generally avoided: China.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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