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26 Jun 19
Economic leaders at this year’s G20 Summit must support investment in using nature to tackle issues such as climate change, say conservation finance experts Margaret Kuhlow and Andrew Deutz....
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25 Jun 19
Authorities in Paris are taking extensive public health precautions ahead of a heatwave forecast this week.
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21 Jun 19
Concentrating UK aid on large middle-income countries risks reducing the focus on poverty and the government’s new “leaving no one behind” philosophy, a watchdog has said.
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21 Jun 19
Low- and middle-income countries could save a staggering $4.2trn by ensuring infrastructure is more resilient to natural disasters.
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18 Jun 19
The UK is to give Afghanistan £170m to help alleviate a “severe” humanitarian crisis caused by the worst drought in a decade that has left millions of people hungry.
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10 Jun 19
Mozambique’s development partners have pledged $1.2bn for reconstruction efforts following devastating cyclones in the country earlier this year.
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3 Jun 19
Subsidising fossil fuels does not improve people’s lives and will ultimately prove more costly to economies, says the WWF’s Vanessa Perez Cirera.
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9 May 19
Unprecedented and sudden migration flows have prompted the Inter-American Development Bank to allocate special funds to help countries integrate newcomers and defuse tensions.
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2 May 19
Ireland has launched a fund to help island states in the Pacific cope with the impact of rising seas.
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26 Apr 19
The fund set up to restore France’s iconic cathedral Notre Dame has already received more than €1bn in pledges.
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23 Apr 19
The World Bank has recognised the important role local authorities in El Salvador can play in withstanding the natural disasters that plague the country.
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18 Apr 19
The UK has pledged £14m to help the countries affected by Cyclone Idai.
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16 Apr 19
With flood warnings still in place over most of the country, Iran’s supreme leader has authorised allocating $2bn from the country’s sovereign wealth fund to pay for relief.
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29 Mar 19
The UK has committed an additional £200 million of aid to war-torn Yemen so far this year to help tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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26 Mar 19
The World Bank is handing Mozambique $90m to help the government build resilience to natural disasters.
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26 Mar 19
New Zealand is launching a royal commission to investigate the 15 March attack on two mosques in Christchurch in which 50 people were killed.
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21 Mar 19
The devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in southeast Africa is “getting bigger by the hour”, the United Nations has warned, as it calls for immediate funding and support.
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8 Jan 19
Indonesia will more than double its disaster response budget to 15 trillion rupiah ($1.06bn) this year after a series of major natural disasters in 2018, officials have said.
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30 Nov 18
Some form of relief scheme is needed for smaller states that have suffered natural disasters to get debt down to a sustainable level, suggests Jubilee Debt Campaign’s Tim Jones.
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28 Nov 18
Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if the current administration does not change its policies, a government report has warned.
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30 Oct 18
The European Commission has announced €300m of EU-funded projects to make the oceans cleaner and safer.
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17 Oct 18
The World Bank is giving Indonesia up to $1bn in loans to help the government’s relief and reconstruction efforts in the areas hit by an earthquake and tsunami last month.
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2 Oct 18
Countries hit by extreme weather events must ‘build back better’ to ensure their recovery and reconstruction efforts are resilient to future shocks, PF International has been told.
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1 Oct 18
International donors have pledged help for Indonesia after it was hit by a deadly earthquake and tsunami on Friday, killing more than 800 people.
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26 Sep 18
The Jamaican finance ministry is drafting a new public financial management policy to respond to natural disasters, the finance and public service minister has confirmed.