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ResponsAbility To Empower Women in Emerging Markets via Climate Fund
A Swiss sustainable asset manager, responsAbility Investments, has announced its commitment to apply a gender lens to its investments through one of its climate funds.
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- Environment
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Press Release: DFC Announces New $2.5 Billion Ocean Plastics Initiative
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced today it aims to catalyze $2.5 billion in infrastructure investments aimed at reducing the discharge of plastic waste and marine debris into oceans and waterways under its new Ocean Plastics Initiative. The initiative seeks to catalyze private sector investment in projects that advance the development of efficient waste management, recycling, and other infrastructure projects in developing countries.
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- Environment, Investing
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- infrastructure, recycling
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Technology Innovations Look To Change the Cacao Landscape in Colombia
As Colombia searches for a way forward after a half-century of war, the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) could have a significant role to play. Called the food of the gods, this squat tropical hardwood holds exceptional social and environmental promise in the intractable expanses of the country.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Latin America
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Press Release: Aspire Impact & Aspire Circle Launch ‘Impact Future Project’ for India To Persuade India INC. To Embrace Impact Capitalism
Aspire Impact, a social enterprise and Aspire Circle, a non-profit trust, twin initiatives focused on leadership and ecosystem development in the social and environmental impact space, have announced the launch of a thought leadership platform, Impact Future Project (IFP) at the Sankalp Forum on 2 November 2020.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Indonesia’s ‘Militarized Agriculture’ Raises Social, Environmental Red Flags
Observers and activists have raised concerns about the leading role the Indonesian government plans to give to the military and to big corporations in a program to establish vast crop plantations across the country.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Positioning South Africa for a Green Recovery
Countries not adapting to a green transition will find themselves behind and excluded. They will be behind on the innovation curve, the cost curve and thus be laggards.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Raises the Bar on the Real-World Outcomes of Impact Investing With a Focus on Impact Performance
Standardization of impact performance analytics will drive development of benchmarks and ratings.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing
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System Value Can Power the Energy Transition in Emerging Markets
The energy transition is more pressing than ever – and as governments look to economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19, they are recommitting to their energy transition plans and investing to drive faster progress.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa