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Press Release: Stephanie Cohn Rupp Appointed CEO of Veris Wealth Partners
Veris Wealth Partners, a B Corp certified impact wealth management firm, announced today that Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Cohn Rupp has been promoted to CEO. Cohn Rupp’s appointment to the CEO position demonstrates the firm’s ongoing commitment to talent development and its 100% focus on impact investing.
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- Investing
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Report: Transition to Electric Motorbikes Could Save Rwanda Rwf9 Billion Annually
The Government of Rwanda is engaging partners and private sector to promote e-mobility that could see phased adoption of electric buses, private cars and motorcycles with a goal to reduce conventional vehicle sales, transport fuel imports which are associated with gas emissions.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pearl Recycling’s Simple but Creative Approach Towards Tackling Climate Change in Nigeria
Earth’s temperature is currently at 0.99 °C, and nineteen of the 20 warmest years we have witnessed occurred around 2001. It doesn’t help that according to a NASA Climate Change report, some of the devastating effects of climate change on our environment are heat waves, heavy downpour, erosion, rising sea-levels, drought, increased temperature, wildfires and many more.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Climate Crisis Is Foundation of Indian Farmers’ Protests
The current protests by Indian farmers against the passage of three laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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- climate change, governance
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Press Release: TLcom Leads $6 Million Series A in African InsureTech Platform, Pula
Nairobi, Kenya. 25 January 2021. Pula, an African InsureTech service provider startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a $6mn Series A fundraise. The Series A fund was led by TLcom Capital, with the participation of Women’s World Banking. The new investment will be used to scale up operations in the company’s existing 13 markets across Africa. Currently, Pula has impacted over 4.3mn farmers on the continent and the new funding will also help propel its expansion into Asia to power resilience and profitability for Asian smallholder farmers.
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- Wimbart
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank, European Investment Bank Seal Deal to Enhance Africa’s Development
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) yesterday signed a joint partnership action plan on how to boost public and private sector investment in Africa.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovations for Transparency: Disruptive Technology Enters the Carbon Offsetting Space
Carbon offsetting allows a net-positive carbon emitter to pay a net-negative emitter to offset their emissions, by trading carbon credits representing one ton of greenhouse gas. In theory, this system can help the world account for the unavoidable gasses emitted in the transition to a low-carbon economy. But as Kavit Borkhataria at AlliedCrowds explains, in practice, it's hard to confirm if carbon reduction projects are actually delivering the emission reductions they claim. He discusses some tech-fueled innovations that can boost transparency and push the market forward.
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- Environment, Technology
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Analysis: Rwanda: Small Batches of Rwandan Coffee Pack Big Punch in World Market
The way they 'punch above their weight' is to ensure that they export high quality coffee, while remaining united through their cooperative movements, according to Angelique Karekezi, the managing director at the Rwanda Small Holder Specialty Coffee Company (RWASHOSCCO).
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa