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    Energy
    Africa
    Insights
    February 3, 2021

    Energy Access Is Key to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Recovery

    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • coronavirus
    • electric grid
    • Economics
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • health
    • renewable energy
    A young South African woman holds up a cloth face mask next to a sewing machine.
    • Energy Access
    • Energy
    • coronavirus
    • electric grid
    • Economics
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • fossil fuels
    • health
    • renewable energy
    Finance
    Latin America Oceania
    Insights
    December 21, 2020

    To Build Back from COVID-19, Don’t Overlook Informal Workers

    • coronavirus
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • poverty
    Tamil Nadu street vendor
    • coronavirus
    • climate finance
    • climate impacts
    • poverty
    Finance
    Insights
    July 11, 2019

    Why Sustainable Forestry Is a Good Investment

    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • climate change
    Senegal villagers
    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • climate change
    Equity
    News
    October 16, 2018

    RELEASE: Global Leaders Call for Urgent Acceleration of Climate Adaptation Solutions

    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Water Security
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • climate impacts
    • renewable energy
    • Urban Development
    • adaptation finance
    • Climate Resilience
    • Water Security
    • drought
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Finance
    • climate impacts
    • renewable energy
    • Urban Development
    Finance
    Insights
    December 19, 2017

    Restoration: One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities for Economic Growth

    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    • Forests
    • Economics
    • deforestation
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • Finance
    Finance
    Insights
    January 18, 2017

    Save the Forests? There's Now an App for That

    • Forests
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Oil palm plantation
    • Forests
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    Climate
    Insights
    May 19, 2015

    Getting It Right: A New Global Model to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change

    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Finance
    • climate policy
    • poverty
    • sustainable development goals
    • COP21
    Photo Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations at Rome
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Finance
    • climate policy
    • poverty
    • sustainable development goals
    • COP21
    Food
    Insights
    January 23, 2015

    Globalizing Sustainable Development

    • Equity
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Today’s challenges go beyond health, food, and education. Photo by Gates Foundation/Flickr
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Climate
    Insights
    December 10, 2014

    Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

    • Equity
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • development
    • human rights
    • climate science
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • united nations
    Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • development
    • human rights
    • climate science
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • united nations
    Climate
    Africa
    Insights
    August 20, 2014

    Securing Rights for People and the Climate in Africa

    • Food
    • Forests
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Way back to Lukolela View on the way back to Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo by Ollivier Girard for CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Equity
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • restoration
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate
    • climate change
    Finance
    Insights
    April 2, 2014

    Injecting Urgency into the World Bank's Climate Change Efforts

    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • multilateral development banks
    • Plans for the Metro Colombo Urban Development project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, acknowledge that the metro area is highly vulnerable to flooding. Photo credit: Travlr, Flickr 2006
    • Climate
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • multilateral development banks
    Finance
    Research
    April 2, 2014

    Designed for the Future?

    Climate
    Insights
    December 23, 2013

    5 Things We Learned in 2013 that Could Move the Needle on Sustainability

    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Equity
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk
    New research shows that the world loses 50 soccer fields' of forest every minute of every day. Photo credit: Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Water
    • Equity
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk
    Finance
    Africa
    Insights
    October 8, 2013

    Q&A with African Risk Capacity: How Innovative Financing Models Can Build Climate Change Resilience

    • Climate
    • drought
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    A Tanzania farmer shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT
    • Climate
    • drought
    • Climate Resilience
    • agriculture
    • climate finance
    • climate change
    • extreme weather
    Finance
    News
    July 17, 2013

    STATEMENT: World Bank: Promote Clean Energy Sources to End Energy Poverty

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • development
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • poverty
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • development
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • poverty
    Business
    Asia
    Research
    April 13, 2010

    Weeding Risk

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