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Press Release: Renewable Energy Jobs Continue Growth To 11.5 Million Worldwide
IRENA’s annual jobs review confirms long-term growth trend; strong policy action essential to ensure continued employment expansion in the COVID-19 era.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Environment
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Press Release: New Research Reveals Alarming Drop in Farmer Incomes in Uganda
Heifer International study of over 400 smallholder farmers in Uganda reveals 97% have seen incomes reduced due to COVID-19.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gender: The Blind Spot of the COVID-19 Response in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing a disproportionately higher socio-economic cost on women. As Melinda Gates put it, “COVID-19 is gender-blind, but not gender-neutral.” Analysts at MSC discuss four potential types of fallout from COVID-19 that will have lasting socio-economic impacts on women in India and other low- and middle-income countries, based on multiple studies that MSC conducted between March and July of this year.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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Analysis: In Times of COVID-19, the Future of Education Depends on the Provision of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) have emerged as an issue of particular concern when considering schools reopening.
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- Coronavirus, Education, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global development, hygiene, sanitation, water, youth
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The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Announced Social Innovators of the Year 2020
Geneva, 22 September 2020 - The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship today announced 23 awardees for social innovation in 2020.
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- Investing
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Analysis: Building Forward From COVID-19 Towards the Ambition of the 2030 Agenda
In the midst of a global pandemic, it’s clear that we are up against enormous challenges, and progress in key areas is slow or regressing, as the recent Sustainable Development Goals report shows.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Global Trade in Food and Agricultural Products More Than Doubles in Last Two Decades
Trade and markets can spur sustainable development and strengthen resilience to shocks
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Europe & Eurasia
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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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