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Mobile Solar Energy Storage Unit Developer Gets a $1.4 Million Grant
Battery and energy storage firm, AceOn has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst 8 Fund.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UNCDF Launches Initiative to Address Challenges Faced by Smallholder Farmers in Asia, Africa
The challenge will help address challenges faced by smallholder farmers around productivity, climate change and supply chain, by also working alongside International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Global
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Getting In the Game: How Wealthy Individuals and Families Can Bring Impact-First Investing Off the Sidelines
The vast majority of impact investments target market-rate returns, which leaves impact-focused enterprises with lower prospects for competitive returns struggling to attract capital. But as Mariah Collins of The Bridgespan Group explains, there's a group of influential and deep-pocketed investors who are ideally placed to change this dynamic: wealthy individuals and families. She shares findings from a recent report that aims to shed light on this largely untapped opportunity, and discusses why the shift to impact-first investing has never been more important — or easier — to make.
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- Investing
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CreditAccess Grameen Raises $25 Million Debt from Swedfund
CreditAccess, the largest microlender by gross loan portfolio, will use the fund for on-lending to female micro-borrowers.
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- Global
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Press Release: Lightrock Closed USD $900 Million Global Growth Fund, Investing In People, Planet and Productivity in Europe, India and Latin America
Lightrock, a global impact private equity firm closed its Lightrock Growth Fund I with investments from LGT and its private clients.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: Is Sustainability the Key to Unlocking Togo’s Textile Industry Potential?
The global textiles industry is one of the major contributors to climate change as it is the second-largest industrial polluter, second only to the oil and gas industry.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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The Bita Drinking Water Megaproject in Angola Registers $500 Million in Financing
Financed by The World Bank and the French Development Agency, this project will benefit 7.5 million people in Luanda and its surroundings.
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- WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- healthcare, social impact, sustainability, WASH, water
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Analysis: What We Know and How to Scale Up Sustainable Agriculture in India
The Green Revolution has ensured India’s self-sufficiency for our cereal needs and has touched most Indian farmers, but its long-term impacts are now visibly evident.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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