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Oxfam Asia doubles down on questioning multilateral banks’ pursuit of private climate finance
Sunil Acharya, Oxfam’s policy and campaigns coordinator for Asia, tells Eco-Business why he thinks the greater use of guarantees to mobilise financing in the private sector is problematic, especially as MDB lending is still at market rates. Globally, the charity is pushing to “decolonise the aid sector” which it says is broken.
Carbon & Climate
Climate change and conflict drive leishmaniasis in Pakistan
Recent outbreaks of the disfiguring, sandfly-spread disease are the result of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s perfect storm of circumstances.
Legally available to all, freshwater canals are being appropriated by leaseholders for personal gain, argue three water analysts.
The World Bank is set to pay the country up to US$45 million in results-based financing to reduce its land use emissions. But only 72 per cent of the funds are expected to reach the beneficiaries after administrative deductions.
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