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Policy & Finance
Philanthropy must dive deeper to save the ocean
Philanthropy's impact depends less on the amounts raised and more on how effectively it connects people and organisations working to build a sustainable blue economy.
Trump’s dismantling of USAID and deep foreign aid cuts are forcing international NGOs to shrink, localise and seek new funding models – with profound consequences for global health and humanitarian work.
Carbon & Climate
How insurance can transform our resilience to climate shocks
From Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean to floods in Southeast Asia, insurance is an underused tool for adaptation to climate extremes.
Carbon & Climate
How to measure climate progress
Ending reliance on oil, coal, and gas, and embracing technologies that will only improve and become cheaper over time, is not just smart climate policy. It is the best way to improve economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come.
All #philanthropy Opinion
17 September 2025
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, philanthropy can unlock climate finance
19 August 2025
Corporate Responsibility
Building inclusive economies: Lessons from East Asia’s social innovation ecosystems
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Policy & Finance
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
27 December 2024
Policy & Finance
How developing nations can raise money to offset climate crisis
19 April 2024
Policy & Finance
Overcoming the development-project implementation gap
6 July 2023
Policy & Finance
The energy transition is fuelling a power transition
17 January 2023
Carbon & Climate
How philanthropy can unlock action on climate and nature this decade
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Corporate Responsibility
Could the crypto-rich be the next wave of billionaire philanthropists?
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Corporate Responsibility
Philanthropy: Feel-good factor or a business opportunity?
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Policy & Finance
Vanuatu needs compensation, not charity
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Corporate Responsibility
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