Climate & Environment

Environmental Strategies to Fight Poverty

Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH)

Access to Menstrual Health & Hygiene Products in Rural Ethiopia

Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a term used to encapsulate the broader systemic factors that link menstruation with health, well-being, equity, empowerment, and individual rights. Leveraging their expertise in market sanitation in Ethiopian communities, a team of iDE-ers sought to expand the organization’s approach through an exploratory study of MHH.
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How the Climate Justice Framework Helps put People at the Heart of Net Zero Ambitions

Climate change and inequality are two of the biggest challenges of our time. Tackling one without the other is increasingly seen as not an option, including for business. The Business and Climate Justice Framework helps businesses identify both the opportunities of putting people at the centre of their climate ambitions and the risks of inaction.
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Companies Need to Wake up to the Urgency of Ending Deforestation in Supply Chains. Here’s How

There is one thing companies can do right now that will help the global community meet the interwoven targets of addressing the risks of nature loss and climate change: halt deforestation and ecosystem conversion in agricultural and forestry supply chains.
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Understanding Sustainable Finance with Namita Vikas

Sustainable finance; blended finance; and green loans are just a few terms that we will be unwrapping in this podcast. Get ready for a 101 in sustainable finance – the tools financial experts are using to accelerate the money we need to fund commercially viable social and environmental impacts. And in particular, we will be deep diving into how to unlock finance for a green transition – so that no one is left behind in the transition to a green economy.
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What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

If you feel like you’re suddenly hearing the word “regenerative” all the time, you’re not wrong. The concept has gained considerable traction in the last year, although it’s not new to the Rainforest Alliance. Read on to learn more on this issue from Rainforest Alliance, who have been partnering with farmers for over 30 years on growing practices that protect the land.
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Naga sticky rice being harvested by a small farmers group in Nagaland, India

Network of Small-Scale farmers in India Tackle Climate Change

This article shares the story of a network of small-scale farmers in India tackling climate change. It forms part of ANDE’s Stories of Climate Resilience: Small Businesses, Big Impact campaign, that showcases adaptation solutions to climate change driven by entrepreneurs.
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Global Goals 2022 – Day 2_WORKSHOP_MINING ANGLO v2

Our workshop explored “How do you create a sustainable and ethical supply chain for decarbonisation? Lessons from mining”, emphasising the need for transparency, stakeholder
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New Report: Women Champion Forest Conservation in Bale, Ethiopia

A new report outlines how Farm Africa and SOS Sahel Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ forest conservation programme in Oromia, Ethiopia has achieved impressive results in its priority objectives of reducing deforestation, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and increasing household incomes. It has also helped the community take significant strides towards advancing gender equality.
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Global Goals 2022 – Day 1_WORKSHOP_RECKITT

Our workshop explored “How can we accelerate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene?” and addressed the challenges of achieving SDG6. Community-led social businesses,
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Global Goals 2022 – Day 1_WORKSHOP_META

Our workshop explored “How can business drive climate justice through supply chains?” and examined practical insights, tactics, and innovations for people-centred climate change efforts.
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Coffee Farmer in Peru

The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action

Throughout the tropics, rates of forest and biodiversity loss are accelerating while the global impacts of the climate crisis are escalating. If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in global emissions, behind only China and the United States. Much of this deforestation is driven by commodities such as coffee, timber, palm oil, rubber, and cocoa.
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Greater Investment Imperative as Climate Disasters Become More Frequent

Pakistan’s catastrophic floods have so far caused at least 1,134 deaths, submerged a third of the country and upended the lives of 1.2million people (according to news reports). This is the human cost of the climate crisis and our thoughts are with those affected by the disaster. Read more from Michael Gidney, CEO Fairtrade Foundation on the support that is needed to rebuild after disasters and to adapt for the future.
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Real-time information for famers enables climate change adaption

Interview with Moses Kimani, Founder and CEO at Lentera Ltd, a farming technology company that provides farmers with market linkage opportunities, digital extension services and quality inputs. Read on to learn how how real-time information for famers enables climate adaption.
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How to communicate social impact with Eric Ressler

How to communicate social impact with Eric Ressler. Eric Ressler’s expert insight into why sustainability communications needs to up its game and how we can go about this.
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Turbo-charging D2C sales for an impact sanitation product

At Archipel&Co, we’ve been working on last mile sales and distribution and sanitation products and services for decades. We were thrilled at the opportunity to combine the two in supporting SATO by LIXIL to identify, prioritise and execute a channel strategy for market-based distribution and sales in Ghana. Explore the case study here. 
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Levelling the playing field – Developing market systems that support regenerative agriculture

Market systems have driven the development of an industrial agricultural system that has excessively low unit costs, at the expense of environment and people. For transformation to happen, we need market systems to drive agriculture that is regenerative.
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Ben Jeffreys, ATEC, clean and safe cooking

Ben Jeffreys is a social impact pioneer – he is dedicating his life to bring clean cooking to everyone around the world. Ben believes that this is one of, if not the world’s biggest social and environmental challenge … and he has the statistics to back it up.
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How important is protecting the environment to you?

Many of our daily habits that we consider “normal” are very harmful to the environment and most of them occur due to misinformation. This is why Fundacion Paraguaya has developed the Green Stoplight (GS) that seeks to promote pro-environmental habits that help people to reflect on their own actions and motivate them in order to generate positive changes in their environment.
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Climate Justice Online Forum Discussions

A summary of a series of online forum discussions about how business can put people at the heart of their climate actions. The series also covered the role of education and skills in the just transition and how thinking about diversity and inclusion can help spread the burdens and benefits of climate action.
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Business and Climate Justice

Climate change is affecting us all, but the most severe impacts are being felt by the most vulnerable people. This framework explores what climate justice means in practice and the actions that business can take. Use this guide to inform business action to put people at the centre of climate action. With the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School and Change by Degrees.
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