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ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap Launched at AEBF-26 to Accelerate a Clean, Inclusive and Resilient Energy Future
The ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap (ETIR) was launched at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF-26), providing a new regional analysis of how Southeast Asia’s energy system could evolve to meet rising energy demand while advancing the region’s long-term carbon neutrality ambitions.
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- Energy, Technology
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- South Asia
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Finance Earth, FSD Africa Launch $100 Million Fund to Back Nature-Based Carbon Projects
The fund aims to protect or regenerate 4.5 million hectares of land, sequester or avoid more than 100 million tonnes of CO₂e over the lifetimes of its projects, and improve the livelihoods of 1.4 million people, half of them women.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BII Targets $1.6 Billion for Climate Finance in South-East Asia
The capital will be used to support developing economies in South-East Asia, including Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, which rely on high-emitting fossil fuel power generation, to transit to a renewables-based future.
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- Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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BII and Swedfund Report Reveals over $200 Billion Funding Gap for Black-Owned and -Led Businesses Across Five African Markets
The report, Understanding the investment gaps in Black-owned and -led businesses in sub-Saharan Africa, combines quantitative market analysis with stakeholder consultations to examine where these businesses are represented, the scale of their funding gaps and the factors shaping access to capital.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mission Blue and IUCN Join Forces to Put Coastal Communities at the Heart of Ocean Action With the One Ocean Partnership
Mission Blue® and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today announced a new collaboration to advance the One Ocean Partnership - a global effort to accelerate locally led ocean conservation by connecting coastal communities with the science, expertise, partnerships and finance they need to scale solutions and develop regenerative seascapes.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Electrification Takes Centre Stage as Hormuz Shock Spurs Countries to Seek to Enhance Energy Security
New IEA analysis, requested by Türkiye and Australia to inform COP31 discussions, finds cost-effective technologies can bring proposed 35% electrification target within ‘striking distance’
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- Technology
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Analysis: The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Now Are Critical.
The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition. If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.
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Indermit Gill’s Parting Thoughts as He Exits the World Bank
Outgoing World Bank chief economist talks debt and discord, while Germany slashes development aid and low- and middle-income countries search for bankable climate solutions.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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