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Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean

Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital The global ocean is changing rapidly, with significant and increasing impacts on marine ecosystems, human lives and economies. Assessing the impacts

Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us

Jindra Cekan Global development aid has a problem which may already affect impact investing as well. It is that we think it’s really all about us (individuals, wealthy donors and INGO implementers) not all of us (you, me, and project participants, their partners and governments). It’s also a

Development workers behaving badly

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Is it really the much-awaited #MeToo or #TimesUp moment of the development industry? Now that the waves of reactions and counter-reactions have subsided, I ask if it is possible to rethink the infamous ‘Oxfam incident’. To put it briefly, the charity’s high-level profession

Climate finance – not kind, climate justice

The international community is failing to move to important discussions: sources, mechanisms and access modalities of Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) since 2012 and this hampers climate justice. “We live in constant fear that a direct hit from intensifying cyclones could wipe out our economy altogeth

Solar Project to Restore Electricity to a Million Yemenis signed by WB and UNOPS

The World Bank and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) signed an agreement for a US$50 million project to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas in Yemen. The Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project will be funded by a grant form IDA — the World Bank f

UN issues first guidance for banking industry to become more transparent on climate issues

The guidance will help banks better manage and be more transparent about the risks that the transition to the low-carbon economy presents to their business. It will also help them seize the corresponding opportunities Sixteen leading banks from four continents, convened by the UN Environment Financ

Australia stumbles further down the donor generosity rankings

Terence Wood Preliminary OECD data on donor generosity were released. The data cover 2017, and should be troubling to any Australian politician thinking of cutting aid in the coming budget. In the 2017 calendar year, Australian aid was just 0.23 per cent of Australia’s Gross National Income (GNI).

Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability

The ultimate successes and failures of climate finance will have diverse consequences for populations living in poverty Climate change induced risks are undermining efforts towards sustainable development of the planet, including progress on the eradication of poverty especially in LDCs, and it has

Gender audits – from paper to practice

Alice Ridge and Juliet Hunt The point at which gender audit findings get translated into practice – is the subject of this qualitative research, recently presented at Devpolicy’s Australasian Aid Conference. Over the past few years, ACFID and our members have been at looking at how gender audi

US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued for Indonesia for sustainable natural rubber plantation and fighting deforestation

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF), a partnership between UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas, announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural rubber plantation on heavily degrad

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