Zim receives $3million for green economy policy
The money came through the ministry of Environment, Water and Climate. The GCF, meant to assist developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices in countering climate change is part of the
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Global economic prospects, June 2018: the turning of the tide?
Despite recent softening, global economic growth will remain robust at 3.1 percent in 2018 before slowing gradually over the next two years, as advanced-economy growth decelerates and the recovery in major
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Failure To Mitigate Climate Change Could Cost Trillions, Finds Stanford Study
A team of researchers from Stanford University have determined that failure to meet climate mitigation goals set out in the Paris Climate Agreement could cost the planet trillions over the next century,
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Economic development in Africa report 2018: migration for structural transformation
Images of thousands of African youth drowning in the Mediterranean, propelled by poverty or conflict at home and lured by the hope of jobs abroad, have fed a misleading narrative that migration from Africa
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Mainstreaming trade to attain the Sustainable Development Goals
The WTO is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which set targets to be achieved by 2030 in areas such as poverty reduction, health,
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Saldanha Bay residents benefit from renewables programme
Hopefield residents, within the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, have benefited from the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement programme (REI4P). A social impact study, completed by
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Tanzania: Water Share to GDP in Tanzania Halved in Nine Years, Report Shows
Dar es Salaam — The share of water supply, sewerage and waste management sector to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has gone down by more than 50 per cent over the last nine years. This means that despite
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Rwanda: Activists Point to Decline of Budget Allocated to Food Security
Activists in Rwanda have raised concerns over the national budget allocated to food security and nutrition that has been declining over the five past years, saying that there is need for more public and
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The Jan-Dhan Yojana, four years later
The Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), one of the flagship schemes of the present government, was launched in August 2014. The ‘J’ in JDY is the ‘J’ in ‘JAM’ (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) through which
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Getting serious about limiting global warming, the world could save itself more than $20 trillion
Fighting global warming is starting to sound like a lucrative investment. A new study from Stanford University finds that keeping global warming a half-degree beneath the Paris climate agreement's 2-degree
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Climate Change-driven Flooding in China Will Hurt the U.S., Study Warns
The U.S. depends heavily on Chinese manufacturing and trade, but those are likely to suffer if Chinese flooding increases by 80% in the next 20 years, as is now predicted They say a butterfly flapping