Tag: Non-profit

IMPACT COLLABORATIVE
United States

Impact Collaborative Launches With Multi-Million Dollar Cornerstone Contribution To Transform The Non-Profit Sector

A first-of-its-kind impact initiative welcomes 200+ partner organizations at launch Press Release – October 30, 2024 – NEW YORK – Today marks the launch of the Impact Collaborative (IC), a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to creating sustainable and scalable solutions to disrupt generational poverty and provide under-resourced communities with access to the social and mental well-being services they need to thrive. With a cornerstone multi-million dollar … Continue reading Impact Collaborative Launches With Multi-Million Dollar Cornerstone Contribution To Transform The Non-Profit Sector

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ifaw
United States

Unified action needed on biodiversity and climate change

October 21, 2024 – Press releases What: UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16)  When: 21 October- 1 November 2024  Where: Cali, Colombia As global leaders and environmental experts gather for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is calling for strong international collaboration to prioritise and tackle the interconnected, and accelerating, crises of … Continue reading Unified action needed on biodiversity and climate change

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greenpeace
Europe

Greenpeace comment on the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2024

16 October 2024 – Press Release Paris, France – The International Energy Agency has released their latest World Energy Outlook report today, affirming ​​global demand for oil, gas, and coal is on track to peak by the end of this decade and warning that failure to accelerate climate action now will put the world on course for a global average temperature rise of 2.4oC by … Continue reading Greenpeace comment on the International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2024

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The Health and Environment Alliance
Europe

Health groups welcome the confirmation of revised EU air quality law: milestone for public health

Press release – 14th October 2024 Today, the EU Environment Ministers confirmed the revised Ambient Air Quality Directive, which was agreed in trilogue in February 2024. The revised legislation updates limits for key air pollutants in the EU to align more closely with the latest World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, and to reflect the serious health impacts of air pollution. The Health and Environment Alliance welcomes … Continue reading Health groups welcome the confirmation of revised EU air quality law: milestone for public health

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globalcitizen
United States

CEOs, World Leaders and Artists Call for Urgent Investment in Africa’s Future

Summary Intel, Cisco, Lawrence H. Summers, Mary Robinson, Nomzamo Mbatha and Stonebwoy, together with over 100 leading organizations and individuals, sign Abidjan Accord calling for $120 Billion for IDA Economic Development Assembly gathers African leaders and the private sector in Abidjan to advocate for investments from the G20 in the World Bank’s IDA21 replenishment Presented by Global Citizen and Bridgewater Associates, in partnership with the … Continue reading CEOs, World Leaders and Artists Call for Urgent Investment in Africa’s Future

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climatenetwork
Global

Not one country is doing enough to provide clean, accessible, and affordable energy

10 October 2024 – Press Release Climate Action Network’s latest Renewable Energy Tracker Report reveals that not one country is doing enough to provide clean, accessible, and affordable energy. The latest findings show that the world is therefore not on track to reach 100% Renewable Energy by 2050.  Renewable energy remains concentrated in just a few, often rich, countries, inaccessible to people globally – notably the rural … Continue reading Not one country is doing enough to provide clean, accessible, and affordable energy

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Nobel Prize
Global

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutethas today decided to awardthe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinejointly toVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their discovery of a fundamentalprinciple governing how gene activity is regulated. The information stored within our chromosomes can be likened to an instruction manual for all cells in our body. Every cell contains the same chromosomes, so every cell contains exactly the same set of … Continue reading The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutethas today decided to awardthe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinejointly toVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

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Rare
United States

Rare Raises US$6 Million in Outcome Funding to Launch World’s First Small-Scale Fisheries Impact Bond

September 24, 2024 – Press Release (New York City) Rare announced today that it has raised US$6 million to launch a first-of-its-kind Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Impact Bond (Bond), the world’s first such bond specifically designed to channel private, public, and philanthropic capital to the small-scale fisheries sector. The Bond, first unveiled at COP28 in Dubai, will finance community-led co-management of small-scale fisheries, a proven pathway to meeting the needs … Continue reading Rare Raises US$6 Million in Outcome Funding to Launch World’s First Small-Scale Fisheries Impact Bond

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