World Bank steps up climate action in Türkiye with major guarantee for resilience project
This project aims at enhancing firm resilience and adaptation to the impacts of changes in climate.
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Climate resilience: Towards making African nations disaster-free
Climate education must be included in the school curriculums, news platforms, social media spaces, and worship centers among others.
Tackling the plastics pollution crisis by channeling private capital to projects that reduce plastic waste
The new Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond solves the timing mismatch problem by channeling up-front financing from capital market investors looking to support plastic waste collection and recycling activities, through a tradeable, high-grade investment product
Fighting climate change in the world’s poorest countries
In 2020, swarms of desert locusts descended on northern Kenya in the country’s worst locust infestation in 70 years. They ate crops and threatened the food security of 3 million people. Locusts brought similar devastation to some of the poorest countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, as governments and communities braced for the COVID-19 pandemic.