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BlackRock Raises $673 Million for Climate-focused Infrastructure Fund
The world's largest money manager hopes the fund, announced on Tuesday and dubbed the Climate Finance Partnership, will show how to mobilize private capital in developing countries to tackle climate change, a sticking point at United Nations climate talks underway in Glasgow.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Triodos Launches Renewable Energy Fund Focused on Emerging Markets
The new fund will aim to provide senior debt to utility-scale wind, solar and run-of-the-river hydroelectrical projects.
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Press Release: Financial Uncertainty in America: 2021 Financial Health Pulse Shows Government Aid Improved Financial Health but Gains at Risk as Relief Programs Subside and Pandemic Lingers
Two-thirds of Americans are still financially unhealthy with particular challenges facing women, LGBTQ+ communities, and people with disabilities; inequities remain by race and gender
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- Finance
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- Global
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How Recovery From COVID-19 and Climate Policies Might Affect the Use of “Clean” Cooking Fuels
A group of IIASA researchers shows how recovery from the pandemic and climate mitigation policies might affect access to clean fuels.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Global
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Citi Analysts Back New Development Bank To Meet Climate Goals
A new multilateral climate action development bank is needed to help get money to emerging markets more effectively, analysts at U.S. bank Citigroup said on Tuesday ahead of an upcoming U.N. climate summit.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, SDGs
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Dutch Pension Giant Spurns Fossil Fuels as Funds Shift Before COP26
Dutch pension fund ABP will divest 15 billion euros ($17.5 billion) of investments in fossil fuel producers by 2023, it said on Tuesday, as many of the world’s biggest investors set out new climate policies ahead of next week’s COP26 summit.
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- Environment
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Analysis: Staying True to the Paris Agreement Could Hobble Booming Carbon Offset Market
The booming voluntary market for CO2 emission offsets is facing a hairy double counting issue that could stop further growth in its tracks. Researchers and NGOs propose new ways of letting companies invest in energy and climate projects in the global south – without letting them use carbon credits towards their emission budgets.
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- Energy, Environment
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Global Water Challenge and AMREF Health Africa Launch Women and Girl-focused Impact Partnership
As the world celebrated Global Handwashing Day, Global Water Challenge (GWC), with Amref Health Africa, launched a high impact community water partnership with support from The Starbucks Foundation to empower women and girls in coffee- and tea-growing communities of Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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