3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For Africa, the Western and Central Africa Regional Education Strategy proposes an ambitious target of training at least 1 million more young people in digital skills by 2025, with the goal for 60% of them to obtain better jobs. Governments worldwide understand the long-term impact of skills mismatch on businesses and the global economy.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

On 14 November 2023, ASEAN Green Future (AGF) presented at the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW), which is one of four Regional Climate Weeks held this year to build momentum ahead of COP 28 in Dubai. At this session, the Malaysia and Singapore country teams presented their findings from quantitative and qualitative climate policy analysis.

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3BL Media

JUNE 30, 2023

said Ee-Hui Tan, Managing Director, FedEx Express Vietnam and Cambodia. This marked the 12th time the Flying Eye Hospital has held a training project in Vietnam, including one virtual project on Cybersight , Orbis’s telemedicine platform.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

To further assist the ASEAN region and ASEAN member states in boosting their decarbonization ambition, several partners have teamed up to create the ASEAN Green Future project. The project aims to demonstrate how sustainable, decarbonized economies offer enhanced economic development and more resilient futures for the region.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Third BIS green bond fund to channel central bank reserves to green projects in the Asia and Pacific region. . The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched a new green bond fund dedicated to help finance investments in green projects in the Asia and Pacific region.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

In Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mongolia, a special cross-functional task force called the CARE Team - COVID-19 Alleviation Response - was formed to actively aid in expanding access to needed medicines. million patients in this region. We supplied a total of 2.5

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While waste presents a challenge across Cambodia, here among the floating villages and dense lakeside communities, sanitation and solid waste management are limited. He explains that women run a significant number of business enterprises in Cambodia, but are poorly supported with training and capital. “We Besides, I have no choice.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2024

Nature Positive Tourism directly contributes to the protection of these habitats and wildlife by engaging with the people living in regions important for conservation.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

In these regions, a rapid transition to greater investment in wind and solar — along with advances in energy efficiency, storage and grid management — could allow countries to meet projected electricity demands without the tradeoffs necessary with hydropower sited in locations with high negative impacts, while still meeting climate goals.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 26, 2023

In the wake of September 2022’s Transforming Education Summit and the ESD-Net launch, UNESCO has organized sub-regional and regional meetings to convene relevant stakeholders to advise countries in the development and implementation of “country initiatives” to mainstream ESD into national sustainable development efforts.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2024

The targets are connected to the regions where Crown maintains operations and include reaching a 70% target in the U.S. and an 80% target in the European, Middle Eastern and African countries in which we operate. Our goals include maintaining rates of greater than 90% and 97% in Mexico and Brazil respectively.

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Sense and Sustainability

MARCH 3, 2020

Within Syria, the largest casualty group can be found in Raqqa, comprising 46% of known landmine or UXO deaths and injuries, followed by 29% in the region of Aleppo. Nations like Bosnia, Angola, Cambodia and Colombia remained haunted by the specter of earth concealed explosives, a future now shared by the people of Syria.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

IRENA report says region “at a crossroad” between clean energy and fossil fuels. A report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says the region will be able to supply two-thirds of the power needed from non-carbon sources by 2050. Swerving health and environmental costs.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

“It’s integral that governments are able to work with stakeholders to ensure that the measures that are being implemented for resilience and adaptation are done at a systemic not just an asset level to take account of inter-regional factors, for example,” she says. billion in funding overall.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The resulting report, Catalyzing Innovation for Women Entrepreneurs , is based on direct data from 328 women microfinance borrowers in Fiji, Samoa and Cambodia. While the research was conducted in three countries within ESCAP’s Asian-Pacific region, the results are consistent with what Kiva is seeing in its network across the world.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A 2019 report by the environmental group Food and Water Watch found similar results for the East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — a cap-and-trade program that regulates the power sector. Most of the valley ranks in the upper third of CalEnviroScreen scores and the region has the worst air quality in the nation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And yet remarkably few regions, even in wealthy countries, have useful, up-to-date flood maps because of the cost and difficulty of creating them.”. Layers of Landsat information for a selected region and specified timeframe identifies temporary and permanent water bodies while integrating site-specific elevation and land-use data.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 2, 2022

Overall, East and South Asia is the region that progressed most on the SDGs since their adoption in 2015. Bangladesh and Cambodia are the two countries that progressed most on the SDGs since 2015. Yet even these countries face major challenges in achieving several SDGs. Christian Kroll | c.kroll@alumni.lse.ac.uk

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the time of writing, the virus has claimed almost a million lives and disrupted the entire world, sparing no region. Among UN regions, East and South Asia have progressed the most. Many low-income countries, notably Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, have so far largely suppressed the epidemic at low cost.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In South America , we co-organized a regional virtual dialogue of Finance Ministers, economists, and energy experts entitled " Towards Decarbonization of the South American Economies ” and also published Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay's Energy Sector.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In our project, for example, this was crucial when conducting research in Benin and Ghana as Europeans, given that West Africa has been especially impacted by the Atlantic slave trade whose consequences continue to shape the region to this day. In future sprints, we would consider offering compensation for participants in such contexts.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Delivering Climate Neutral Districts - Implementing a New vision at City and Region Scale Session Recording | Glasgow Green Deal | San Diego County Regional Decarbonization Framework This session was framed around a whole systems approach to develop the Climate Neutral Districts Vision that crosses city and regional scales.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 18, 2023

The packaging take-back program engaged thousands of Herbalife independent distributors across the Asia Pacific region in 2022 and expanded into new markets this year. The multi-nation Simply Recycle challenge is an example of this mission in action.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To date, 1,932 university student volunteers have taught 6,604 teenagers at 398 regional learning centers across the country, equivalent to 1,566,382 hours of cumulative learning time. This model was the basis of several Jump programs, and in 2013, the organization used it to develop H-Jump School in partnership with Hyundai Motor Group.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a 105-page petition, Auxin Solar, a minority- and woman-owned domestic producer of solar modules in San Jose, California, asked Commerce to determine that solar cells and modules assembled in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia are circumventing and undermining the effectiveness of U.S. trade remedy laws. 15 companies. Allegations.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

And Cambodia has proposed plans to scrap its rooftop photovoltaic capacity charg e, which currently penalizes installations, and to introduce new tariffs. This historic figure marks a major rebound from 2022. The report also says that the U.S. solar market is expected to triple over the next five years.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

The surge in ESG-labelled investment has been accompanied by a comparable flood of ratings, but the patchwork nature of regional data presents challenges. . The region accounts for a rapidly rising share of ESG investment capital but only about 10% of the global ESG data market, according to estimates. Data gaps .

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 7, 2017

a 75% increase 2005-2010 in Cambodia ), and may increase more in the wake of the natural disasters, disease epidemics, and refugee crisis, where many unaccompanied and separated children are at risk of entering institutional care or other forms of surrogate care.

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