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Press Release: UBS Optimus Foundation and Swiss Re Foundation Invest over USD $2 Million to Kickstart a New Partnership with Terratai
The support of UBS Optimus Foundation and Swiss Re Foundation will be targeted towards building and scaling Terratai’s first cohort of early-stage businesses that can demonstrate quantifiable impact on nature and biodiversity.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: Small-Scale Farmers Receive 0.8% of Climate Finance Despite Providing a Third of Our Food Supply
Small-scale farms make up 84% of the world’s 570 million farms and control 12% of total agricultural land. In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, MSMEs are responsible for 65% of all food produced.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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COP28: UAE Planned to Use Climate Talks to Make Oil Deals
The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Achieving the SDGs in the World’s Most Vulnerable Countries: Why the Private Sector Must Recommit to Financing Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States
It's widely recognized that the world is not on track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. And as Isabella Massa and Samory Toure at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network explain, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are facing unique obstacles to their SDG agendas. They explore the economic, geophysical and environmental vulnerabilities that SIDS face, and call for the private sector to step up its commitment to financing SDG progress in these countries.
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- Environment, Investing
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U.N. Plastic Treaty Talks Grapple with Re-Use, Recycle, Reduce Debate
Environmental group Greenpeace said a successful deal would require the United States and the European Union to show greater leadership than they have so far.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- climate change, recycling, waste
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UK Unveils White Paper to Set Approach to Global Development
The white paper, published today, sets out revolutionary approach to tackling world hunger.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: Green Exploitation Is Still Exploitation
If leaders give in to the temptation of short-term gains, the extraction of africa’s transition minerals will follow familiar colonial dynamics.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Women in Agriculture Among ‘Most Vulnerable’ to Climate Change Impact, Shows New Global Study
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems journal, the study maps hotspots in low-and-middle-income countries where climate change, agriculture, and gender inequality intersect.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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