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Six financial innovations for a sustainable recovery in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Impact Alpha

The post Six financial innovations for a sustainable recovery in Africa, Asia and Latin America appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, March 10 – Voluntary and mandatory carbon markets are starting to drive sustainable investments around the world. Energy Peace Partners’ Peace Renewable.

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Cost-effective response to COVID-19: Light every health clinic in Africa and south Asia

Impact Alpha

In Africa and southern Asia, hundreds of thousands of people live each day without adequate access to any healthcare at all. The post Cost-effective response to COVID-19: Light every health clinic in Africa and south Asia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Pula raises $6 million to expand farmers’ insurance from Africa to Asia

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The post Pula raises $6 million to expand farmers’ insurance from Africa to Asia appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, January 26 – Kenyan insurance tech venture Pula has facilitated crop insurance for more than four million smallholder farmers in 13 African.

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Next Billion raises capital to invest in digital infrastructure and services in Latin America, Asia and Africa

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The post Next Billion raises capital to invest in digital infrastructure and services in Latin America, Asia and Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The investment firm Next Billion Capital Partners funds tech ventures supporting access to basic services in emerging markets. It reached a first close.

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Billions of dollars being used to fund coal power in Africa and Asia

Envirotec Magazine

Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s 20 least-electrified countries by percentage of population without electricity are all in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 exposed days in Europe and northern America decreased over the two decades of the study – whereas exposures increased in southern Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Latin America and the Caribbean. µg/m 3 ) and Southern Asia (37.2

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German government investing $115M in renewable energy in Africa

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million) in investment to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy across Africa. The capital will be invested through the African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) to unlock private sector participation in funding the region’s transition to low-carbon energy resources.

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