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UK tots up £6bn in climate finance for developing counties since 2011

Business Green

Totting up the UK's International Climate Finance (ICF) since 2011 in an update report published on Tuesday , the government said it had mobilised £4.1bn public and £2.2bn private finance for climate change efforts in developing countries over the period.

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Scotland’s recycling rate hits all-time high

Envirotec Magazine

recycled – the highest recycling rate recorded since the start of the current series in 2011. The sector has been boosted by innovation and investment by businesses such as Scottish specialist recycler Brewster Brothers. Scotland generated 10.16 million tonnes of waste, with 62.3% million tonnes.

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China-based Gochin seeks to invest $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium mining sector

Charged

China-based Gochin has approached the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum with a proposal to invest $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium mining sector. In September 2011, USGS announced the results in the report: “ Summaries of Important Areas for Mineral Investment and Production Opportunities of Nonfuel Minerals in Afghanistan.”

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Lessons in frontier finance from 40 impact investments

Impact Alpha

Omnivore, an India-based venture fund, for example, invested in Delhi-based Skymet Weather Services in 2011 to generate better weather data necessary for crop insurance and lines of credit for India’s small farmers. The firm’s crop The post Lessons in frontier finance from 40 impact investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hospitals Are Investing Billions of Dollars in Fossil Fuels, Report Reveals

DeSmogBlog

Major hospital systems and medical institutions in the United States are betraying their oath to “first do no harm” through their investments in the fossil fuel sector, warns a new report from a campaign advocating for fossil fuel divestment in healthcare. private hospital systems.

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The New ‘Valleys of Death’ in Climate Investing

GreenTechMedia

It started after the Solyndra bankruptcy in 2011 and ended about two years ago, when the market began heating up again. There were about eight years when climate tech was wandering in the wilderness, so to speak. During that time, people in this space examined the valleys of death.