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Rainforest Carbon Credit Schemes Misleading and Ineffective, Finds Report
System not fit for carbon offsetting, puts Indigenous communities at risk and should be replaced with new approach, say researchers.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Global
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Press Release: Wildmender Partners with the Rainforest Alliance to Help Gamers Play in Harmony with Nature
Partnership will empower the world’s 1.8 billion gamers to learn about their impact on the planet and show them what they can do to help save it.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Indigenous Peoples are Being Excluded from a Global Pool of Climate Cash
The U.N. says the world is spending trillions on climate action and only a fraction is going to Indigenous communities.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Yunus Was Right — Credit is Indeed a Human Right, and Savings is Important Too: Why the Microfinance Sector Must Avoid the ‘Circular Firing Squad’ and Promote Multiple Approaches to Financial Inclusion
Alex Counts, financial inclusion pioneer and founder of Grameen Foundation, took issue with Jeffrey Ashe’s recent NextBillion article, “Yunus Was Wrong—Savings, Not Credit, is a Human Right.” He argues that, instead of seeing the world through an “either/or” lens, the financial inclusion sector should embrace multiple tools, including credit, savings, insurance and more — and he urges today's changemakers to avoid promoting one social innovation at the expense of others.
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- Finance, Social Enterprise
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Sweeter Prospects for Cocoa Farmers: A Recent Study Shows How Formal Land Rights Improve the Financial Outlook for Smallholders in Cote d’Ivoire
Cocoa is one of the world’s most prized foods, but the smallholder farmers who produce it typically live in poverty and often lack formal rights to the land they're farming. Scott Graham and Anahit Tevosyan at FINCA International explore how a partnership between global chocolate companies and other industry and development sector players is strengthening farmers' property rights in Cote d’Ivoire — the source of 45% of the world’s cocoa — thereby aiming to improve their financial health and resilience.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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Report: Introduction to Racial Inequity as a System Risk
New report funded by the surdna foundation helps investors to manage the risks of racial inequity, promote racial equity, and advance racial justice.
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- Investing
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- Global
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- human rights
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Report: Child Labourers Are The Unseen Victims Of Climate Change
Child labour affects roughly 160 million children globally with African agriculture at the epicentre.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Workiva Partners With Code.org To Narrow the Digital Divide and Expand Access to Computer Science Education
Workiva Inc., the company powering transparent reporting for a better world, announced today it has kicked off a global, multi-year partnership with Code.org.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Global
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- data, digital inclusion, ESG, human rights, nonprofits
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