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BlackRock, Temasek Raise $1.4 Billion for Decarbonization-Focused Growth Fund
Since launch, the Decarbonization Team has grown to more than 25 members across offices in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Paris and Houston.
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- Global
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Report: Climate Change a Health Risk for 70% of World’s Workers, UN Warns
As average temperatures rise, heat illness is a growing safety and health concern for workers throughout the world, including in the U.S.
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- Uncategorized
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Press Release: USAID Announces Additional $35.7 Million in New Funding to Fight Plastic Pollution
USAID Announces additional $35.7 million in new funding for Save Our Seas.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, decarbonization, waste, water
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Analysis: The Rise And Fall Of ESG
The climate crisis is real and capitalism is in danger due to public backlash to rising income inequalities and declining living standards.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Report: Netflix, Apple, Shell Among Top Global Firms Buying Kenya’s Carbon Credits
The 'Carbon Market Guidebook for Kenyan Enterprises' indicates that in 2022, Kenya was the second largest issuer of VCM carbon credits in Africa after the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Impact Manager Acre Raises $100 Million for African Climate Infrastructure
Typically, export credit agencies guarantee up to 85% of loans and require the rest to be raised privately, yet banks' willingness to fund the remainder has declined as such projects carry a higher capital charge and can be hard to reinsure.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reshaping Africa’s Food Systems: Three Opportunities to Drive Sustainable, Inclusive and Scalable Impact
Africa's agricultural sector is plagued by low yields, fragmented value chains and a large finance gap, and the region is home to 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. As Neil Wood, Oscar Garza and Hanna Dohrenbusch at Open Capital explain, these challenges have brought the sector to a critical juncture. They share three key solutions based on Open Capital's work on 450+ agriculture and food systems projects across Africa, which have the power to help drive the future of agriculture on the continent in the decades to come.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Tanzania Receives Electric SGR Trains From South Korea
The locomotives, acquired from Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, can carry up to 589 passengers and travel at average speeds of 160km per hour.
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- Environment, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa