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(With Video) Facing Climate Change By Adapting to It
While the emphasis today is on rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts from Hurricane Sandy, some East Coast leaders have already begun to raise the tough question for tomorrow: How do we adapt to climate change? In developing countries, this question is a part of daily life. From the Oxfam series, “Climate Change The Hardest Hit,” here are three stories from three continents where low-income people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- farmers, sustainability, video
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Global co-op leader: Co-ops should be fastest growing business model by 2020
The leader of the global co-operative movement today outlined an ambitious vision for making co-operatives the fastest growing business model by the end of the decade.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
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In the pipeline: $300M worth of AFD, IDB projects
The French Development Agency, or AFD, and the Inter-American Development Bank have signed a three-year “action-oriented” agreement that will expand the two agencies’ development efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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- sustainability
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‘Over 60 percent of land projected to become urban by 2030 yet to be built’
Global urbanisation will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, observes a new assessment by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- energy, health care, sustainability
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Bottom of the Pyramid Business Strategy Holds Sway
The BOP strategy is right here with us and it is holding sway, but many probably do not know. This is what the case is with several economic practices we get involved in day-in-day-out, which we are oblivious of what esoteric names the intellectuals of this world call them..
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IIX, SEAS Sign MoU To Promote Growth Of Social Enterprises In Asia Pacific
SINGAPORE, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) and the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to solidify joint efforts to promote the Social Enterprise (SE) space in the sustainable energy sector.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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North Africa: Japan’s Unicharm Corp. to Bring Affordable Hygiene Products to 36 Million Low-Income Women
New York/Tokyo — Japanese consumer products giant Unicharm Corp. has pledged to bring affordable diapers and sanitary products to 36 million low-income women in the Middle East/North Africa and Asian regions as part of the Business Call to Action (BCTA), a global initiative to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development through the development of inclusive business models.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- sanitation, sustainability
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Financing a greener future
World governments will gather soon in Hyderabad, India, for the biennial Convention on Biological Diversity conference to find ways of valuing and safeguarding life on Earth - perhaps one of the most pressing priorities the global community now faces.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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