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‘Climate change is real’: CEOs share their disappointment over Trump’s Paris accord exit
After threatening Wednesday to leave if Trump made the exit, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Thursday afternoon that he was "departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world." Disney CEO Robert Iger followed him, calling his departure from the president's advisory council a matter of "principle."
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- Environment
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TriplePundit — On Growing Up
This week, TriplePundit was acquired by 3BL Media, the leading provider of distribution services for corporate social responsibility and sustainability news and content. As we whispered a sneak preview to friends and colleagues in person at the Sustainable Brands conference in Detroit last week, it was hard to keep the news to ourselves.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
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- North America
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Smallholder farmers in Kenya in the race against climate change
For years, the farmers’ efforts in small-scale agriculture produced little meaningful return. But this did not stop the community from having a collective vision for their prosperity: They wanted to improve their living standards, educate their children, engage in farming as a business and add value to cash crops to increase their income. What they lacked was the knowledge to make this happen.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Satellites find “hidden forests” helping fight against global warming
They found that trees like baobab and acacia shade 467 million more hectares of land than previously thought - an area roughly equal to half the size of the United States - increasing estimates of global forest cover by at least nine percent.
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- Environment
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- agriculture, earth, environment, food, sustainability, World Bank
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Bridging the Chasm Within Southeast Asia’s Social Enterprise Ecosystem
While impact investing continues to grow in popularity globally, there is a shortage of social enterprises in Asia ready to take on the amount of capital and return assumptions needed to balance impact with the market-rate returns desired by many impact investors. Fixing the problem will require blurring the boundaries between commonly defined funding spaces – a key topic at the upcoming AVPN Conference.
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- Events and Competitions, Investing
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Solar lamp social enterprise mulls manufacturing plant in Kenya
The firm produces solar products that charge phone devices and provide power to homes, using off-grid systems. Nathaniel Peat the firms’ Co – Founder, says Kenya has become an important market for them having already invested Sh26.4 million in the market.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- environment, renewable energy, solar
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New Guide Helps Investors ‘Make a Clean Break’ from Fossil Fuels
Make a Clean Break: Your Guide to Fossil Fuel Free Investing — an update to previous versions released in 2014 and 2013 — provides improved insights and analysis about the potential financial advantages of eliminating fossil fuel corporations from investment portfolios and reinvesting in clean, sustainable and solutions-oriented investments that are advancing the transition toward a zero-carbon economy.
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- Environment, Investing
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Australia’s DFAT and XPRIZE Team Up to Tackle Water Scarcity
XPRIZE, Tata Group and innovationXchange are together funding a prize for an affordable solution to water scarcity. The idea is to generate clean water from the air, in situations where water is currently unavailable or inaccessible. XPRIZE will help the top five finalists access advance market commitments, allowing them to test their technology in the field, at scale. Teams have until April 28 to register.
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- Environment, Events and Competitions, Technology
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