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Scaling Climate Finance for Smallholder Agriculture: Lessons Learned from Partnering with Farmer-Allied Businesses
Small-scale agriculture supports the livelihoods of more than 600 million families and generates over 40% of jobs in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Yet as Elizabeth Teague at Root Capital points out, agricultural livelihoods are highly vulnerable to climate change, and smallholder farmers receive just 1.7% of global climate financing. She discusses how Root Capital is working with farmer-allied enterprises to help close this gap, sharing what they’ve learned about how to design and scale climate financing for smallholder communities.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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BlackRock Fund Backs Renewable Energy Firm in First Latin America Investment
BlackRock-managed fund Climate Finance Partnership (CFP) will make its first foray into Latin America with the acquisition of a minority stake in Brasol, a Brazilian renewable energy firm.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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Press Release: Convergence Blended Finance Releases New Findings — Reports 45% Decline in Global Blended Finance for Climate
Public financing for climate, while increasing, has seen the overall growth rate decline, private climate financing volumes lag, and climate blended finance flows regress.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Multilateral Development Banks Deliver Record Climate Finance of Close to $61 Billion for Low and Middle-Income Economies in 2022
With the record 2022 climate finance volumes, multilateral development banks have, for the second year in a row, exceeded the 2025 climate finance targets.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Emerging Economies Need Much More Private Financing for Climate Transition
A broad mix of policies is needed to unlock the necessary private capital in emerging market and developing economies and ensure a positive climate impact.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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Climate Finance Startup Pyrpose Opens Public Beta Enabling Consumers to Directly Support Climate Innovators
The Pyrpose platform allows consumers to understand their own carbon footprint and enables them to take action to tackle climate change.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Closing the Investment Gap for Risk Reduction in Asia-Pacific
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is an annual reminder of our continuing struggle to reduce loss of lives as well as the social and economic damages caused by disasters.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Time for a Course Correction with Climate Finance Action on All Fronts, Says WWF
In WWF's Climate Policy Manifesto, WWF proposes three practical principles to guide multilateral finance institutions to deliver for climate action.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Global