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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

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By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. Wall of greenwash? After all, as Alison Loat, the managing director for sustainable investment and innovation at OPTrust puts it, “What’s at stake isn’t the future of the planet.

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Five trends that shaped sustainable finance in 2022

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This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. More than US$8 trillion removed from sustainable investment tally. sustainable investment, to US$8.4 In the U.S.,

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