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Positioning South Africa for a Green Recovery
Countries not adapting to a green transition will find themselves behind and excluded. They will be behind on the innovation curve, the cost curve and thus be laggards.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Is This Emerging Markets Bond Performing So Well?
While the case for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is almost a no-brainer given the sector’s recent performance and despite stricter measures on cracking down on ESG funds, emerging markets might be on the opposite end of the spectrum. Or are they?
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Sudan’s Record Wheat Harvest Is Proof That Bank Agricultural Transformation Program Will Boost Breadbasket Goal
Despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, travel and transport restrictions, Sudan has just recorded its largest wheat harvest. According to Sudanese officials, the nation saw a wheat production level of a 1.115 million-ton harvest from 315,500 hectares of farmland. That’s quite an improvement from just five years ago, when farmers in Sudan working about a quarter-million hectares of land harvested just 472,000 tons of the grain.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agritech, banks, emerging markets, environment, farming
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Press Release: Solar-Powered Technology To Level the Playing Field for Women and Girls in World’s Poorest Countries
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has awarded 20 organisations a total of £2.9 million in funding for innovative, solar-powered appliance technology projects that will help to level the playing field whilst addressing the climate emergency.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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In Defense of Palm Oil: Why We Should Be Supporting the Industry’s Move Toward Sustainability – Not Demonizing It
After reading Jim R. Richards’ NextBillion op-ed “The Ecological Disaster of Palm Oil: Why It’s Time to Embrace Climate-Friendly Alternatives,” Robert Hii at CSPO-Watch.com felt compelled to respond. He argues that Richards' critique of the palm oil industry's ecological damage fails to recognize its impact on local economic growth and poverty reduction, and ignores its substantial moves toward sustainability.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Press Release: MetLife To Reduce Emissions by 30 Percent and Originate $20 Billion of New Green Investments by 2030
Over the next 10 years, MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) has committed to reduce its location-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent from 2019 levels, originate U.S. $20 billion in new MetLife Investment Management (MIM)–managed green investments1, and allocate U.S. $5 million to develop products and partnerships that drive climate solutions.
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- Environment, Investing
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Vietnamese Farmers To Get Help From Bayer in Fight Against Saltwater-Drought, COVID-19
Around 80,000 smallholder farmers whose livelihoods and welfare have been severely impacted by COVID-19 will benefit from a global initiative by Bayer titled ‘Better Farms, Better Lives.’
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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COVID-19: Burden or Boon for Financial Inclusion?
When the Alliance for Financial Inclusion outlined its “Five Key Financial Inclusion Policy Trends for 2020” on January 17 of this year, the spread of the novel coronavirus was still in its infancy. Now that COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global economy, Robin Newnham at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion revisits those trends, viewing them through the prism of the pandemic – and finding both new risks, and new opportunities.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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