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The Women’s Brain Project Takes the World Economic Forum 2024 Stage
The Women’s Brain Project (WBP) announces the creation of its new Foundation to support the world’s first Research Institute for Sex and Gender Precision Medicine. It takes a global stage to discuss a major global research endeavour, and at the
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Belarusian Entrepreneur Denis Primakov Is Developing an Efficient System for Transporting Perishable Products
Despite the fact that the transportation of goods by car in the United States has always been and still is a leader among other modes of logistics, there are a lot of problems in this sphere, especially related to the
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Collaboration, Fintech and Crypto Dominate Italian Summit, and New VC Fund Announced by Generali
Why Italy is bucking a downward trend, and some take-aways from the 2023 Milan Fintech Summit… Italian insurance giant Generali Assicurazioni has announced a specialised insurtech and fintech venture capital fund within its larger Generali Ventures fund. It will dedicate
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New World Development: Leading Disruptor in Real Estate Industry
Founded in 1970, New World Development Company Ltd (“the Group”, Hong Kong stock code: 00017) was publicly listed in Hong Kong in 1972 and is a constituent stock of the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index. The Group’s core businesses include
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UNCDF: Secrets to Easing Funding Process for Less Wealthy Countries’ Climate Battle
Qatar’s under-sung conference shared the limelight with larger international events — but it provided some key points for decarbonisation… A high-level conference addressing climate change was convened in March — and we aren’t talking about COP28. It was a high-level
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UNCDF: COP27 Pledges Biodiversity Finance to Boost Climate-Change Resilience
Forests, coral reefs and populations most at-risk come into focus at 2022 summit in Egypt. “From the beginning, this conference has been driven by two overriding themes: justice and ambition.” These were the words of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
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OECD: What Will It Take to Achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires financial and non-financial investment to discover sustainable development pathways. One of the key elements is securing enough capital. Development finance providers are working to mobilise commercial finance. They are designing blended finance
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UNCDF: Growth Capital Plan to Assist the World’s Least-Developed Nations
The International Municipal Investment Fund and allied initiatives will support entities with the potential to make a real difference in frontier markets. The International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF) UNCDF and Meridiam signed an agreement to collaborate on the International Municipal
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Water in the Desert: A Challenge that TANQIA has Taken to Heart
TANQIA, the UAE’s first privately owned wastewater collection and treatment utility, does not lack vision. The state-of-the-art wastewater collection and treatment system (WWCTS) in Fujairah strives to drive down costs, promote sustainability, and accommodate future demand with renewable energy. Water
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Making Expo 2020 Deeply Personal: How Accenture Helped Put the Visitor at the Heart of the World’s Greatest Show
When we first started working with Expo and Etisalat Digital over six years ago, they had bold and ambitious plans for what they wanted Dubai’s Expo to be. Now that it’s all over, we can say without argument that Expo2020
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