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Analysis: Plastic Credits: A ‘False Solution’ or the Answer to Global Plastic Waste?
As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.
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- Environment, WASH
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- Global
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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
This comes as world leaders have reconvened in Geneva this week to continue negotiations on the UN Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to establish the first legally binding international agreement to end plastic pollution across its entire lifecycle.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel Targets Network Expansion, Mobile Money in Safaricom Battle
Kenya’s second-largest telecoms company grew faster than its larger rival in the first four months of this year, but wants to ramp that pace up.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
A new report published in The Lancet has found that plastics are responsible for more than $1.5trn in global health-related economic losses each year, affecting people from infancy to old age.
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- Health Care, WASH
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- Global
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Why Big Tech Is Threatened by a Global Push for Data Sovereignty
Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Global
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The Startups Helping African Countries Capture the Value of Their Mineral Exports
These companies are offering audit trails and compliance platforms, local reagent plants, and data-backed logistics services.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’
As global health funding contracts, traditional brick-and-mortar healthcare delivery models are becoming financially and operationally unsustainable, in Africa and across low- and middle-income countries. Joanne Peter at Jhpiego and Rob Beyer at Villgro Africa argue that this raises the need for innovative new pathways toward universal health coverage. They propose one such approach, developed through their work at the HealthTech Hub Africa: "Access-as-a-Service," a model that combines in-person care options with first-line healthcare provided through digital channels.
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- Health Care, Technology
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SEC Drops Proposed Anti-Greenwashing Fund Disclosure Rules
"The announcement marks the latest in a series of moves shifting the SEC away from Gensler’s climate and ESG-focus since the former Chair’s resignation from the Commission . . ."
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- Energy, Environment
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- North America