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Brazil Shifts from Mandatory to Voluntary Sustainability Reporting
The revised regulation, while making sustainability reporting voluntary, creates a “comply-or-explain” system, under which a public company that chooses not to file a sustainability report is required to justify the decision through a market announcement, including the reasons for the decision, by the time it files its annual financial statements in 2027.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Latin America
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2026 Coffee Barometer: Sustainability Cannot be Built on Permanently Cheap Coffee
The newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer exposes systemic flaws in the global coffee industry over the past 20 years.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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New Report Highlights USD 4 Billion EV Charging Investment Opportunity Across Emerging Economies
Joint analysis by C40 Cities and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) outlines practical pathways for emerging-market cities to scale charging infrastructure and accelerate electric mobility adoption.
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- Energy, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘Growth’ Is a Doomed Strategy – There Is a Better Way
For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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MTN Leads Bid to Share African Digital Infrastructure Costs
The GSMA, the industry’s main lobby group, has reinforced the message, calling for “urgent, coordinated action” between governments, regulators and companies to treat telecoms as infrastructure and adopt a “shared responsibility.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Why the World’s Most Ambitious Coal Phase‑Out Deal Has Failed – And What It Means for Climate Finance
The failure to decommission Cirebon-1 matters beyond Indonesia. It suggests the world’s flagship model for financing the end of fossil fuels isn’t working. And the longer it takes to admit that, the harder the transition becomes – for Indonesia, and for everyone.
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- Energy, Environment
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- South Asia
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Analysis: AI Is Minting New Billionaires, and Workers Want Their Share
From Kenyan data annotators to Hollywood actors, laborers across the supply chain are challenging the surge in “AI billionaires” as automation continues to drive widespread job cuts.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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‘Deep Pockets’ vs. ‘Long Pockets’ in DPI: What Instant Payments and Open Finance Tell Us About Sustainable Funding for Digital Public Infrastructure
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is gaining traction in emerging markets around the world. But as David Porteous at Integral: Governance Solutions and Rafe Mazer at Fair Finance Consulting explain, while the financial cost of building DPI may be modest, operating it at scale requires ongoing costs to be allocated across the ecosystem over time, making DPI sustainability fundamentally a governance issue centered on pricing policies. They explore how two of the three broadly accepted categories of DPI, instant payment systems and open finance, can develop credible mechanisms to finance long-term costs — while maintaining incentives for participants and trust among users.
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- Finance, Technology
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