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6 Apr 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has called on world leaders to focus on boosting developing countries’ economies to “pull the roots” of extremism and prevent future refugee crises.
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6 Apr 16
Health needs from humanitarian emergencies have hit an “all-time high” according to the World Health Organisation, which is appealing for $2.2bn for its work in 2016.
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4 Apr 16
The African Development Bank has announced a $549m package to respond to severe drought across eastern and southern Africa.
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31 Mar 16
China blazed ahead of the rest of the world in terms of investment in renewable energy last year, spending a total of $103bn, or 36% of the world total.
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11 Mar 16
The World Bank and the Global Environment Facility have launched a multi-million dollar “global platform for sustainable cities”.
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9 Mar 16
The African Development Bank has won Green Climate Fund accreditation, meaning funds can now be channelled to the continent through the bank as an implementing agency.
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17 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced a new partnership strategy with China, which will prioritise climate change.
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17 Feb 16
The UK is to send food packages and medical supplies to Malawi, where drought exacerbated by El Niño has caused the country’s worst food crisis in a decade.
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12 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced $10bn in funding for Indonesia over the next five years to help it further develop, particularly in infrastructure terms.
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12 Feb 16
New analysis has revealed the high human and economic cost of 2015’s 346 natural disasters, which affected more than 98 million people and caused $66.5bn worth of economic damage.
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5 Feb 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has called for a “new multilateralism” and partnership between the world’s increasingly interdependent emerging and advanced economies...
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1 Feb 16
USAID has announced almost $100m in additional food assistance for drought-stricken communities in Ethiopia, who are still suffering from the impact of a powerful El Niño.
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26 Jan 16
The United Nations has warned that the health consequences of El Niño are likely to continue throughout 2016 and urged governments to invest now in preparedness to prevent unnecessary deaths,...
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25 Jan 16
A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
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18 Jan 16
Behind the triumph of the COP21 agreement, developed and developing nations have very different ideas about how much money is flowing from the former to the latter to deal with climate change.
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15 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
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14 Dec 15
Italy is to contribute €4.7m to the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund.
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14 Dec 15
A landmark deal to tackle climate change agreed at the COP21 summit in Paris over the weekend is a “monumental triumph”, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said.
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11 Dec 15
UK international development minister Nick Hurd has called for a global response to the increasingly desperate situation in Ethiopia.
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11 Dec 15
Prince Charles has called for an ambitious and committed public, private and civil society partnership that can “re-wire” the global economy to eliminate its harmful impact on the environment.
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9 Dec 15
A “high ambition coalition” consisting of more than 100 countries has called for a climate deal that is both as strong as possible and legally binding.
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9 Dec 15
United Nations agencies and their partners have launched an appeal for almost $2bn to provide crucial assistance to people in Africa’s Sahel region for 2016.
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8 Dec 15
The US’s Power Africa and the UK’s Energy Africa campaigns will be joining forces to help people on the continent gain access to clean energy.
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8 Dec 15
OECD member states are “woefully lacking” in their efforts to put a price on carbon, the organisation has warned.
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7 Dec 15
The economic damage caused by climate change could be 60% higher than previously forecast in Southeast Asia, the Asian Development Bank has warned.
6 Apr 16World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has called on world leaders to focus on boosting developing countries’ economies to “pull the roots” of extremism and prevent future refugee crises.
6 Apr 16Health needs from humanitarian emergencies have hit an “all-time high” according to the World Health Organisation, which is appealing for $2.2bn for its work in 2016.
4 Apr 16The African Development Bank has announced a $549m package to respond to severe drought across eastern and southern Africa.
31 Mar 16China blazed ahead of the rest of the world in terms of investment in renewable energy last year, spending a total of $103bn, or 36% of the world total.
11 Mar 16The World Bank and the Global Environment Facility have launched a multi-million dollar “global platform for sustainable cities”.
9 Mar 16The African Development Bank has won Green Climate Fund accreditation, meaning funds can now be channelled to the continent through the bank as an implementing agency.
17 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank has announced a new partnership strategy with China, which will prioritise climate change.
12 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank has announced $10bn in funding for Indonesia over the next five years to help it further develop, particularly in infrastructure terms.
12 Feb 16New analysis has revealed the high human and economic cost of 2015’s 346 natural disasters, which affected more than 98 million people and caused $66.5bn worth of economic damage.
5 Feb 16International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has called for a “new multilateralism” and partnership between the world’s increasingly interdependent emerging and advanced economies...
25 Jan 16A new trust fund to help developing nations in Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure and market bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects has launched today.
18 Jan 16Behind the triumph of the COP21 agreement, developed and developing nations have very different ideas about how much money is flowing from the former to the latter to deal with climate change.
15 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
14 Dec 15Italy is to contribute €4.7m to the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund.
14 Dec 15A landmark deal to tackle climate change agreed at the COP21 summit in Paris over the weekend is a “monumental triumph”, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said.
11 Dec 15UK international development minister Nick Hurd has called for a global response to the increasingly desperate situation in Ethiopia.
11 Dec 15Prince Charles has called for an ambitious and committed public, private and civil society partnership that can “re-wire” the global economy to eliminate its harmful impact on the environment.
9 Dec 15A “high ambition coalition” consisting of more than 100 countries has called for a climate deal that is both as strong as possible and legally binding.
9 Dec 15United Nations agencies and their partners have launched an appeal for almost $2bn to provide crucial assistance to people in Africa’s Sahel region for 2016.
8 Dec 15The US’s Power Africa and the UK’s Energy Africa campaigns will be joining forces to help people on the continent gain access to clean energy.
8 Dec 15OECD member states are “woefully lacking” in their efforts to put a price on carbon, the organisation has warned.
