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Towards carbon risk and climate performance recognition in the financial sector
Despite the clear need for their involvement, finance-industry players currently remain largely disengaged from the investment needs of the low-carbon economy. ‘Carbon risk' and ‘climate performance'...
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Green bonds – a promising tool for climate finance
The green bonds market is booming – boosting the growing flows of private capital being channelled towards energy transition and with the potential, ultimately, to encourage the direct financing of gr...
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Adapting to climate-change: the private sector can contribute
Adapting to climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century – its effects are already evident and widespread, and the developing world is particularly vulnerable. Multilateral develop...
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Tomorrow's Africa: secondary and tertiary education, the catalyst for change
Africa countries have made huge strides in providing universal access to primary schooling, but secondary and tertiary educational opportunities lag far behind – creating enormous development challeng...
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$ 40 billion needed to reduce global deforestation
Private financing for sustainable forest management is far greater than public financing, but still falls far short of what is needed to halve global deforestation by 2020. There is a serious informat...
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Meeting the challenge of funding the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient societies
Current funding levels are insufficient to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, despite resources such as some of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. For a successful transition to a lo...
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Towards an intercultural approach to CSR in Africa
By virtue of their specific cultural imperatives and practices, African businesses are invested with a social mission, extending beyond their exclusively economic role. At a time when a more corporate...
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An agribusiness group pioneering CSR practice in Africa
The example of the Côte d'Ivoire group SIFCA demonstrates that CSR is a guarantee of sustainability and functions as a performance lever for companies. Since 2007, SIFCA has been committed to sustaina...
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Boosting CSR in African SMEs: the experience of an impact investor
African SMEs often lack the funding to put formal CSR policies in place, but doing so could help them to achieve greater economic success and boost their impact on development. As well as providing fu...
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Processing of customer complaints
Proparco establishes and maintains in an operational state a procedure for handling complaints, which are defined as the expression of dissatisfaction (excluding requests for information, opinions or...
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From aid to partnership: Lafarge's CSR programme in sub-Saharan Africa
Industrial ecology is a major component of Lafarge's corporate social responsibility programme in sub- Saharan Africa – alongside initiatives promoting safety at work, healthcare and education. The gr...
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Investment in junior companies: laying the foundations for economic development in Africa
Investing in junior mining sector players is much more than a simple opportunity: it can catalyze growth in Africa. New fields can, for example, be exploited thanks to junior players; despite fluctuat...
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Aavishkaar
Aavishkaar Frontier Fund invests in companies in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, which have an inclusive economic model and whose activities have a positive impact on low-income populat...
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How can Africa's mineral resources help promote sustainable development?
Since 2003, demand for mineral resources has been bolstered by growth in emerging countries. In Africa, it opens a «window of opportunity» that can make its growth sustainable. The exploitation of its...
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Tourism in developing countries: a neglected lever of growth despite its potential
As the negative impacts of tourism are clearly visible, they tend to dominate the spheres of debate and research and consequently eclipse its positive spillover effects, which are less visible and mor...
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What tourism for remote areas in developing countries?
Remote sites in developing countries often present a major interest for tourism. Although the difficulties to access them, the lack of infrastructure and skilled human resources may pose a problem, “p...
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IFC's approach to investing in tourism
Although tourism plays a key role for developing countries, investment projects in these countries carry a high level of risk. This risk can only be borne via a long-term commitment and rigorous proj...
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Combining best practices and profit in tourism
In order to bring about economic growth, develop local human resources, as well as cultural and natural heritage – while reducing the ecological footprint of establishments to a minimum – the Serena H...
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