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How Partnerships Can Turbo Change Progress on the SDGs
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P4G, which works to accelerate green growth through path-breaking public-private partnerships, has announced the winners of this year’s P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership Awards. Serena Li, Erin Gray, and Maggie Dennis highlight four success factors for high-performing partnerships and who’s putting them into practice. A key ingredient? Disrupting the status quo. Read More
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Today's challenges require collaboration and action from governments, businesses and civil society organizations alike. Photo by Frederic Koberl/Unsplash
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7 Ways to Bridge the Blue Finance Gap
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A sustainable ocean economy could provide $3 trillion in annual gross value added by 2030. But investment into these opportunities is shockingly low: just 1% of the ocean economy’s total value was invested in sustainable projects. Transforming economic models and market systems could unlock the full potential. A new blue paper from the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy reveals how. Read More
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Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.
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Pollution and racism are too often seen as separate issues when in reality they are closely intertwined. Examples of success such as drinking water testing and ensuring voter rights could show the way to tackling other global injustices. Elizabeth Moses and Carole Excell explain how WRI’s Strengthening the Right to Information for People and the Environment (STRIPE) project is supporting locally led, community-determined fights against pollution around the world. Read more
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Bringing New Life to Fallen Urban Trees
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If a tree falls in a city, what happens to it? Every year, 36 million trees come down in U.S. cities due to old age, disease and new development. Reforestation Hubs harvest the otherwise wasted wood, creating jobs and generating profits that are spent planting new trees. Cities and civic groups that would like free technical support to create a new Restoration Hub are invited to submit a letter of interest by October 30. Read more
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Coastal Development: Resilience, Restoration and Infrastructure Requirements
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October 28, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
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Urban Water Resilience: Change through Storytelling
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October 29, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
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SBTi Asia Webinar Series: Science-based Targets for Financial Institutions
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November 10, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM +08
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Webinar: Country Action in the Race to Zero
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November 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EST
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Land Accelerator South Asia Demo Day
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December 01, 2020 to December 02, 2020
5:30 PM - 7:00 PMIST | 7:00AM - 8:30AM EST | 1:00PM - 2:30PM CET
Building Urban Water Resilience in Africa
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December 02, 2020
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM EST
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