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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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- Global
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You Can’t Have Global Standards Without the Global South: Why Emerging Markets Must Lead the Way in Driving Impact Reporting Transparency
In recent years, global standard-setting bodies have released widely adopted impact reporting standards, designed to ensure that companies disclose sustainability- and climate-related information alongside their financial statements. Though these standards are a huge step forward for global impact transparency, Ibukun Awosika argues that they reveal a troubling power dynamic between developed and emerging markets. She explores how key voices in the Global South were left out of the process of developing these standards, and proposes two changes that can ensure a greater role for them going forward.
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- Environment, Investing
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COP29: Smallholder Farmers Being Left Behind
Smallholder farmers worldwide produce between 25% and 35% of the world’s food but receive less than 1% of all financial resources allocated to help mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: Gender Equality Cannot Be Last on the Agenda at COP29 Climate Talks
Women can be powerful agents of climate action if included in decision-making processes and given access to the right resources.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Global
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation Advances African-Led Energy Transition Solutions at COP29
The Rockefeller Foundation announced $US10.9 million for the African Climate Foundation; African School of Regulation; Clean Cooking Alliance, via UN Foundation, in Kenya; GOGLA; SEforALL, via UNOPS, in Zambia.
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- Global
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Global Coalition Pledges $10 Billion for Brazilian Forest Restoration and Conservation
This public-private partnership brings together major financial institutions, conservation organizations, and government entities to support Brazil’s environmental goals, making it one of the most comprehensive forest restoration programs in the world.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Latin America
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Global Partnership Channels More Than USD $1 Billion to Scale Up Weather Services for Hundreds of Millions of Farmers Across Asia, Latin America and Africa
A consortium of global partners has committed to mobilizing significant investments over the next three years to drive the implementation of the AIM for Scale Weather Package.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Global
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Acumen Announces $300 Million Agricultural Adaptation Commitment
A five-year commitment will help close agrifood adaptation finance gap, reach forty million smallholder farmers, feed one billion people by 2030.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Global