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Strengthening the Front Lines in the Fight Against Climate Change: A Call for Investment in Coastal Communities’ Resilience
This week, both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit and Climate Week NYC are happening in New York, at the end of the hottest summer on record. As Florian Kemmerich at Palladium and Bamboo Capital Partners points out, there are good reasons for the alignment between the two events and the growing urgency of the discussion — particularly in a coastal city like New York. He explores how coastal communities bear the brunt of escalating climate impacts, and how investing in their climate resilience can support progress toward the other SDGs.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Invests $5 Million in Mombak’s “The Amazon Reforestation Fund”
The Rockefeller Foundation’s $5 million investment in Mombak alongside several blue chip investors represents the latest effort to strengthen the marketplace for carbon credits.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Latin America
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Financial Institutions Failing To Integrate Nature And Climate: New Report Warns Inaction On Nature Impedes Net-Zero Ambitions
Financial institutions must step up responsibility to demand credible and comprehensive data to drive transformative change throughout the financial system.
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- Environment, Finance
- Region
- Global
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€73 Million for Electrification and Sustainable Agriculture in Madagascar
TalakyBe will be implemented in 25 rural councils in the Anosy region in south-east Madagascar.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agtech, forests, renewable energy, solar
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Amazon Nations Fail to Agree on Deforestation Goal at Summit
The failure of the eight Amazon countries to agree on a pact to protect their own forests points to the larger global difficulties of forging an agreement to combat climate change.
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- Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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- climate change, decarbonization, forests, SDGs
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Viewpoint: The World Bank Is Failing on Climate Change
If the World Bank is serious about meeting its development goals, it cannot do so without first tackling climate change.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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World Bank Approves $700 Million in Financing to Increase Access to Water and Sanitation and Enhance Forest Community Livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The two projects will seek to enhance access to basic services and improve livelihoods in some of the most underserved areas of the country.
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- forests, sanitation, water
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Press Release: Malawi Secures $4.4 Million in Funding From the Global Environment Facility Towards Building Climate Resilience in the Lake Chilwa Basin
The five-year project, known as ‘TRANSFORM’, aims to enhance the resilience of vulnerable rural communities by bolstering their natural, human, and economic adaptive capacities.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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