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World Bank Offers $1 Billion for Batteries in Emerging Markets
Most existing battery projects are expensive and focused in developed countries.
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- Energy, Technology
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Rising Carbon Emissions Make Crops Less Nutritious, Threaten Global Health
By emitting historically high levels of carbon pollution, we are literally making our food less nutritious.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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How Africa can up its game on water management for agriculture
About 12 million hectares of land become degraded each year. Droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and larger. For a host of reasons Africa is at the eye of this storm.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global warming policy: Is population left out in the cold?
Many nongovernmental organizations undertake climate- and population-related activities, and national adaptation plans for most of the least-developed countries recognize population growth as an important component of vulnerability to climate impacts. But despite this evidence, much of the climate community, notably the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the primary source of scientific information for the international climate change policy process, is largely silent about the potential for population policy to reduce risks from global warming.
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- Environment
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Rich countries pushing ‘dirty energy’ in Africa, report claims
Study finds that while wealthy nations advocate renewables at home, 60% of aid to African energy projects went on fossil fuels.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How impact investing can tackle the plastic crisis
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 32 per cent of plastic packaging escapes collection systems worldwide and, if current trends continue, the weight of plastic in the oceans could surpass the weight of fish by 2050.
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- Environment, Investing
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Climate-Proofing Poverty Graduation Programs: A New Study Explores Solutions
Imagine building a business from the ground up – only to see it literally washed away with every drought and flood due to the effects of climate change. These weather-related cycles, which disproportionately impact women, keep millions in poverty and threaten millions more. Nicole Mills with The BOMA Project and Alex Russell with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab detail a new project pairing poverty graduation programs with livestock insurance – and discuss the randomized control trial designed to see if it actually works.
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- Agriculture, Education, Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment
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Powering the World’s Poorer Economies: A Response to Bill Gates and Jigar Shah
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and SunEdison founder Jigar Shah have clashed in a heated debate over the best way to provide energy access to the world’s poor.
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- Energy
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