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Press Release: B Lab Global Announces New Lead Executive, Eleanor Allen, Accelerating Mission to Make Business a Force for Good
B Lab and the B Corp movement looks to shift power and builds a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economic system for all people and the planet.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Analysis: Businesses Engage Employees to Respond to Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine
Wondering what, if anything, your company should be doing about the war in Ukraine? Here are some ideas.
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- Education
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Press Release: UAE and IRENA Launch New Initiative to Provide Communities With Access to Energy for Clean Cooking
Beyond Food partnership launched by IRENA and UAE in collaboration with NAMA to provide clean cooking energy and technologies to communities and households.
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- Energy, Environment
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- North Africa & Near East
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Development Bank Accused of Lending Millions to Companies Allegedly Linked to Forced Labor in Xinjiang
New research suggests the IFC, which operates under the World Bank Group, has been providing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies that may be relying on forced labor from Uyghur and other ethnic minority groups in China's western Xinjiang region.
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- Investing
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175 Countries Agree to First-Of-Its-Kind Plastic Waste Treaty
The United Nations said that representatives of 175 countries have agreed to develop a first-of-its-kind global treaty to restrict plastic waste.
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- WASH
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- Global
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- circular economy, waste
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After Green Bonds Come Orange Bonds: IIX Launches Coalition to Develop First Gender-Lens ‘Asset Class’
Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the creator of the $150m Women's Livelihood Bonds, has launched the Orange Bond Initiative, a global coalition to create what they call the world’s first gender-lens investing asset class.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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IPCC Adaptation Report ‘a Damning Indictment of Failed Global Leadership on Climate’
“This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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Press Release: DFC and USADF Launch New Initiative to Help Accelerate Small Businesses in Africa
The ASBC seeks to support SMEs in four countries – Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda – focused in key sectors including agriculture and food security, education, healthcare, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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- Agriculture, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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