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Press Release: USAID Announces Additional $35.7 Million in New Funding to Fight Plastic Pollution
USAID Announces additional $35.7 million in new funding for Save Our Seas.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, decarbonization, waste, water
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US Launches Africa Trade Desk, Targets $300 Million Deals in 18 Months
The Africa Trade Desk is part of a broader strategy to boost trade between the US and African countries with the looming expiry of the AGOA trade initiative.
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- Investing
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Press Release: British International Investment and Citi Launch $100 Million Risk-Sharing Facility to Support Trade Finance in Frontier and Emerging African Economies
The funding helps to accelerate the flow of key agricultural commodities, and use of machinery and solutions that strengthen food security in vulnerable economies.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism Receives $7.3 Million to Boost Agricultural Productivity and Smallholder Farmers’ Income
The funding targets food production and income growth for 800,000 smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: How Impact Valuation Helps Companies Meet the Latest Sustainability Reporting Requirements
Impact valuation provides objective and quantitative insights and helps to inform the new demands of European sustainability reporting requirements.
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- Investing
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- Global
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- data, ESG, global development, impact measurement, SDGs
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TLcom Closes Africa’s Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million
Confirming TLcom Capital’s status as Africa’s largest Seed and Series A investor, the new fund accelerates the firm’s mission to partner with elite founders to tackle Africa’s biggest and most complex challenges.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- venture capital
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Nigeria Secures $1 Billion to Boost Indigenous Medicine Production
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the acquisition of over $1 billion in funding to support the local production of indigenous medicines in the country.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: What ESG Investors Need to Know about ‘Systems-Level Investing’
ESG can measure risks to cash flows, but ‘systems-level investing’ offers a more complete view of where corporations might be vulnerable over the long term.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global