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ATEC Receives a Letter of Authorisation From the Bangladesh Government to Generate Article 6.2 Carbon Credits
The LOA formalises the Bangladesh government's approval for the international transfer of generated ITMOs, making ATEC the first clean cooking developer to receive an LOA in Bangladesh.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Financing AI Transformation in LMICs: What Multilateral Development Banks Must Do Differently
Multilateral development banks have spent the last decade building the foundations of digital economies across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the broadband networks, digital ID systems and other priorities they've financed are helping to make AI deployments in these markets possible. But as Kunal Walia at Dalberg Advisors explains, this funding often goes toward piloting individual use cases, expanding digital infrastructure or creating an enabling environment, rather than uniting these different components into holistic AI systems that aim to scale. He argues that multilateral development banks must rethink their approach to ensure that the infrastructure they've helped build can actually enable AI transformation.
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- Investing, Technology
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Nigeria Launches an Ambitious National Digital Cloud Policy
The final phase will involve scaling government migration, expanding infrastructure, onboarding participating states, strengthening regional interconnection and increasing digital service exports.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Why We Should All Be Worried About AI in Elections
"The more important question is not what happens when AI generates a fake video of a candidate, but what happens when it is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves — in procurement decisions, biometric voter-verification systems, and data-sharing arrangements."
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- Global
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Eight More Nations Pledge New Circular Economy Roadmaps in Africa
As part of this second phase of the National Roadmaps for the Circular Economy (NCER) program, Angola, Liberia, Madagascar, and Senegal will develop their own roadmaps by identifying priority sectors, aligning institutional efforts, and tailoring strategic guidelines to their local productive structures.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Smallholder-Supermarket Disconnect: Addressing the Missing Links that Separate East African Farmers from Formal Retail Markets
Smallholder farmers are the backbone of East African agriculture, accounting for approximately 75% of production in several countries. At the same time, formal food retail is expanding across the region. Yet as Daniel Njiwa at AGRA and Kris Ansin and Audrey Tsoi at TechnoServe explain, despite this alignment, the formal retail market remains inaccessible to many smallholder farmers, as a range of barriers prevent them from supplying these vendors. They share learnings from a pilot program that highlighted some of these constraints, and explore how supermarkets can work through aggregators that consolidate and coordinate supply from multiple farmers to source smallholder produce at scale.
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- Agriculture
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South Africa Court Ruling Blocks Shell Offshore Exploration, Raising New Questions for Energy Investment and Environmental Governance
The dispute illustrates a growing tension in African resource-producing economies: governments seeking new sources of domestic energy, investment and fiscal revenue must increasingly reconcile those objectives with environmental safeguards, community rights and legal requirements for public participation.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- blue economy, energy access, ESG, governance, mining, regulations
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Kenyan Teenagers Build $126 Exhaust Filter From Maize Cobs and Coconut Shells
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki and Miron Onsarigo call their invention HewaSafi, Swahili for "clean air". It is designed to fit onto matatus, the privately owned minibuses that carry millions of passengers across Kenya's cities every day and are among the country's biggest sources of urban air pollution.
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- Energy, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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