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COP30 Summit in Brazil: What to Know About the UN Climate Conference?
Delegates from around the world are expected to disagree over how to tackle climate change and who should pay.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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Analysis: SMS Charges May Be Inhibiting the Use of AI for 1 Billion People
"Entrepreneurs I spoke with are shelving ideas due to the price of SMS, including services that would have provided local agricultural guidance, advice for pregnant women, and insights to small businesses from transaction records."
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- Telecommunications
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- Global
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GAIA Climate Loan Fund Seals $600 Million First Close, Driving Adaptation in Emerging Markets
The GAIA facility is blazing a new trail in climate finance by extending long-term loans to public sector borrowers in almost two-dozen emerging and developing markets.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Global
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Global Momentum for Nature Finance: UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative Helps Countries Unlock Over $2.7 Billion for Nature
Governments around the world are accounting for nature in their fiscal planning at an accelerating pace, signaling a shift in how economies value and finance our ecological life-support systems.
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- Environment
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Report: Global Climate Fund Assets Hit Record $644 Billion in First Half of 2025
The total of global assets in open-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with a climate-related focus reached a record $644bn in June of this year, marking a 8.5% increase since the end of 2024.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Modernizing Ports Is a Major Untapped Opportunity for a Healthier Planet
"With progress on the water facing a fresh reckoning that calls for new collective efforts, now is the time to bolster efforts on the shore, where ports are largely an untapped resource in the fight against climate change."
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- Environment
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Analysis: “Lens Investing” Is Just Admiring the Problem
Impact investing doesn’t need another lens; it needs a lever. Stop admiring the system’s flaws and start shifting power to those building something better.
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- Investing
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‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels
Fossil fuel giants like Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron have paused, delayed, or turned back previous commitments to reduce oil and gas production or increase renewable energy investments, while private banks ramped up lending to the fossil fuel sector by nearly 30 percent in 2024, the Lancet Countdown report said.
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- Environment, Health Care
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