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Colombia: a Key Tool for the Energy Transition
With more than 50% of its exports concentrated in oil and coal, the Colombian economy is highly vulnerable to the energy transition. This highlights an apparent tension between the climate and biodive...
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Climate Change: Promoting and Supporting Citizen Engagement
The climate emergency is prompting calls across the globe demanding more active citizen participation. We are seeing a proliferation of initiatives and schemes geared towards this, including in operat...
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Findings from a Study on Citizenship Education in Emerging and Developing Countries
AFD and the Education for Citizenship and International Solidarity (ECIS) consultation group have published a report on ECIS organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, providing a clearer pictur...
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"Atlas" of Latin America and the Caribbean: 17 Sustainable Development Initiatives
Latin America is considered a champion of sustainable development, with pioneering initiatives that have been replicated not only across the region, but around the world. Some of the most innovative p...
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Coalition Launches First Call for Biodiversity Projects Worldwide
A new Program to support CSOs that safeguard biodiversity is launching its first call for projects. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s French Committee is calling for proposals to s...
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Brazil: more equitable public policies in response to climate change
Brazil’s government and institutions are working together to develop local policies aimed at the communities most vulnerable to climate change. Gender equality and anti-discrimination criteria are now...
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Developing bioeconomics in the Amazon to protect the planet
Reducing environmental degradation requires not only ecosystem preservation, but also economic and social growth. The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, and its inhabitants, have long been at the...
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5 Flagship Projects that are Restoring Nature around the Planet
Close to 40% of the world’s land is degraded, according to the UN, which has made the need to protect biodiversity all the more urgent. AFD Group is convinced that biodiversity conservation and the fi...
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Oceans: A New System to Protect Marine Biodiversity in Argentina - and Beyond
With 5,000 km of coastline, Argentina is working towards establishing, for the first time, a national system to monitor the abundant coastal and marine biodiversity around the country and beyond. By k...
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Protecting Biodiversity: the Key Role of Indigenous Communities
Worldwide, an estimated 400 to 500 million Indigenous people occupy 20% of the earth’s territory. Yet unsustainable development has caused not only the displacement of countless people, but also the d...
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Finance in Common Summit 2023: the Progress Made - and the Road Ahead
In the race against time to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, attention is turning to the more than 500 public development banks worldwide. Their involvement is becoming increasingly urg...
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Taking the Leap: the Cutting-Edge Development Banks Aligning their Activities with the SDGs
At the halfway point to the 2030 deadline, the world is far from achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Public development banks however, can play a crucial role. Ahead of the UN General Assembl...
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Helping Mexican Farmers Protect Coffee Crops and Improve Quality ...
Mexico's Chiapas state is famous for its coffee farms, but small farmers have to contend with a host of challenges, from pest control and the vagaries of global markets to the growing impact of climat...
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Ecuador Prepares the Path to Decarbonization
Ecuador has begun work on a series of reforms aimed at decarbonizing its economy, and the country as a whole. With technical support from AFD, it is carrying out extensive cost-benefit analyses to det...
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5 Agroecology Projects, to Improve Food Security and Protect the Environment
Agroecology is not only effective for increasing crop yields, it can improve food and nutritional security, while preserving natural resources. AFD Group, in partnership with NGOs and other institutio...
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“We Cannot Develop Sustainably if we Lack the Resources”
Often overlooked in discussion of development are the financial and strategic changes required to shift economies from fossil fuels to greener alternatives – and the need to overcome lingering debt....
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France Hosts One Ocean Summit in Worldwide Search for Sustainable Solutions
From 9 to 11 February, France is hosting the One Ocean Summit, where heads of state and government representatives from all over the world will descend on Brest, Brittany, in northwestern France to di...
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Bioeconomy: Protecting Biodiversity for an “Economy for Life”
Increasingly, governments, the private sector, civil society and international cooperation are investing in the bioeconomy – a range of economic activities that tap into our biodiversity. It’s an alte...
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AFD is "more Latin American than you think!"
Until June 10, France is celebrating the tenth edition of Latin America and Caribbean Weeks. On this occasion, AFD Group is organizing a series of events aimed at deepening the links between the two r...
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Voltalia sells a minority stake in its largest solar plant, SSM1&2, located in the Serra Branca cluster in Bra...
STOA, an investment fund specialized in infrastructure projects in developing and emerging countries and Voltalia (Euronext Paris, ISIN code: FR0011995588), an international player in renewable energi...
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