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World Bank Backs Cambodia’s $115-Million Clean Energy Push, Flags Environmental Risks
The program will be implemented nationwide, covering both urban and rural areas, including Phnom Penh and the eastern provinces.
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- Energy
- Region
- South Asia
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Coast 4C Secures Funding to Scale Smallholder Seaweed Farming in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia produces the majority of the world’s carrageenan, a seaweed-derived ingredient used across food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, but supply remains fragmented across informal networks, limiting quality, consistency, and farmer income.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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African EV Platform Spiro Raises Another $55 Million
African electric mobility firm Spiro has raised another US$55 million from Chinese early-stage investor NewTrails Capital, three weeks after raising $215 million.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Forests Launches A $1 Billion Global Natural Capital Fund
According to the company, the new fund is designed to provide institutional investors with access to a globally diversified portfolio of natural capital assets, reflecting growing demand for investment strategies that can deliver long-term returns alongside environmental benefits.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Shell Foundation, the FCDO and Kinetic Green Announce Partnership to Pilot Electric Two and Three Wheelers for African Markets
The partnership is supported by catalytic capital provided by Shell Foundation and the FCDO through its RIDE programme and the Transforming Energy Access (TEA) platform. This
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- Energy, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Holocene Closes Southern Africa’s First Dedicated Climate-Tech Fund
Holocene targets promising, local founders at the earliest stages, but who lack capital and hands-on operational support to get them to scale, especially in a nascent sector such as climate-tech.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazil Shifts from Mandatory to Voluntary Sustainability Reporting
The revised regulation, while making sustainability reporting voluntary, creates a “comply-or-explain” system, under which a public company that chooses not to file a sustainability report is required to justify the decision through a market announcement, including the reasons for the decision, by the time it files its annual financial statements in 2027.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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OPEC Fund Provides $150 Million Loan to South Africa
The loan forms part of a wider international financing package co-financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, KfW and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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