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Press Release: Swiss Public-Private Partnership Opens Doors to Projects Mobilizing Investment for the SDGs
SDG Impact Finance Initiative calls for proposals focusing on education, jobs, climate and responsible consumption/production.
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- Investing
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- Global
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How COVID-19 Is Reversing Energy Access in the Global South
Since the start of the pandemic, 100 million people have lost access to electricity. The off-grid renewable energy sector needs urgent support if progress towards the UN’s seventh Sustainable Development Goal, to ensure energy access for all, is to be maintained.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Global
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Report: Africa to Drastically Accelerate Progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets on water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa will require a dramatic acceleration in the current rates of progress.
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- WASH
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- Global
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- global development, hygiene, sanitation, SDGs, water
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Using Blended Finance to Navigate the Pandemic: How an Innovative Funding Vehicle is Helping SMEs Survive COVID-19 and Advance the SDGs
Emerging economies' progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is behind schedule, and COVID-19 has set their efforts back even further. Margi Goelz at Georgetown University and Bridget Bradley at Tetra Tech discuss the value of blended finance in closing these countries' estimated $2.5 trillion annual SDG funding gap. They explore how an innovative blended finance facility has helped a Kenya-based energy company navigate the pandemic and contribute to the SDGs, and how this approach can support other small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Investing
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SEforALL and UN-Energy Announce Microsoft Signing Two Energy Compacts
Microsoft is the latest company to submit an Energy Compact, affirming its commitment to drive decarbonization of the electric grid to combat climate change.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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Analysis: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Horizon: Financing Sustainable Infrastructure in Emerging Economies
Net-zero emission goals and global targets for better environmental, social and economic outcomes are found in the Paris Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Investing
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- Global
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Global Health Champion Dr. Paul Farmer Has Died
Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, Harvard Medical School professor, anthropologist and co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, has died at age 62.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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- infrastructure, SDGs
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$150 Million Asian Development Bank Loan to Support Green Recovery, Catalyze Financing Toward SDGs in Indonesia
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $150 million loan to support a facility aimed at accelerating Indonesia’s economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and catalyzing public and private funds to support green and bankable infrastructure projects.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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- South Asia