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LeapFrog Investments: $1.15 Billion Fourth Fund Closed
The funding includes $808 million of primary fund commitments and up to $210 million of pre-allocated co-investment to accelerate high-impact healthcare and financial services companies in global growth markets.
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Press Release: IFC Issues 700 Million Australian Dollar Green Kangaroo Bond to Promote Biodiversity in Emerging Markets
The proceeds of this bond will support biodiversity initiatives, such as the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s Latin American reforestation strategy.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: UNAIDS Report Shows That Upholding Human Rights Is Vital for Ending the Aids Pandemic
Of the 39.9 million people living with HIV, 9.3 million people are still not accessing life-saving treatment.
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From Baku To The Amazon: Eyes On COP30 As COP29 Disappoints
The meeting’s theme was “In Solidarity for a Green World,” and culminated with the adoption of an agreement that brought incremental progress in climate finance and mitigation goals.
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Business Seeks Details in Face of Mixed COP29 Climate Messages
While private sector investment was teased throughout the summit - including in a multilateral development bank pledge to mobilise $65 billion of it each year - the devil will be in the details.
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Analysis: COP29 Outcomes: Reversal of Hard-Won Gains Creates an Opportunity for the Private Sector to Step up and Lead
While some progress was made at COP29, this year’s COP is viewed as a reversal in ambition, as there was no agreement on phasing out of fossil fuels, and the new climate finance goal of USD 300 billion annually by 2035, is viewed as largely inadequate.
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- Energy, Environment
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TotalEnergies Pauses Investments in India’s Adani Group After Bribery Charges
The crisis is the second in two years to hit the Adani group, which was last year accused by short seller Hindenburg Research of improperly using offshore tax havens. The company denied those claims.
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- Energy
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- governance, regulations, solar
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Five Firms in Plastic Pollution Alliance ‘Made 1,000 Times More Plastic Than They Cleaned Up’
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds.
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- Environment
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