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Analysis: Building Forward From COVID-19 Towards the Ambition of the 2030 Agenda
In the midst of a global pandemic, it’s clear that we are up against enormous challenges, and progress in key areas is slow or regressing, as the recent Sustainable Development Goals report shows.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Press Release: Pakistan Making Shift To Clean Power Production and Lower Energy Costs With World Bank Support
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $450 million in financing to support Pakistan’s transition to renewable energy resources that reduce its reliance on fossil fuel imports and lower costs of electricity production.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Press Release: Greenlight Planet, Solar Pay-as-You-Go Market Leader, Secures $90 Million Investment
New Funding to Expand the Company’s Pay-As-You-Go Solar Financing Business, Backed by Leading Investors CDC Group, FMO, Norfund, and ARCH Emerging Markets Partner
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Charting a Path for a Resilient Recovery in Sub Saharan Africa
Countries need to ensure that the vast global fiscal support deployed to fight the pandemic also works to build a smarter, greener and more equitable future.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Big Oil Has Fallen’: Environmentalists Celebrate Exxon Mobil Being Booted from Dow Jones
Exxon Mobil’s demotion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average after nearly a century is being celebrated by environmentalists as a harbinger of the fossil fuel industry’s demise.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Renewable Energy in Developing Countries Emerges as Growth Area
With oil and gas prices down 30% for the year and fossil fuels becoming less attractive due to sustainability issues, investors are looking elsewhere in the energy sector.
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- Energy
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BP Aims to Build 50GW of Renewables by 2030, Cut Fossil Fuel Output by 40%
The oil supermajor lays out further details on its path toward net-zero, keeping ahead of its fossil fuel rivals in its energy transition ambitions.
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- Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy, SDGs
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Analysis: Clean-energy optimism soars as world struggles with the pandemic’s fallout
Investors see big business opportunities building renewable energy projects in emerging markets. This solar farm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua started operating in 2018.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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