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The Jianjiang River, the local "mother river" that runs through Tianzhu County of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Guizhou Province, was once a bother for locals as river blockages often caused heavy flooding and its pungent water was full of litter all year round.   Environmental cleanup efforts had fallen short over the years as the county government, which has an annual fiscal revenue of less than 1 billion yuan (about 155 million U.S. dollars), could not afford high spending on the river's ecological restoration.   In 2018, the Guiyang branch of t...

[co-author: Theodora Okocha] Environmental, Social and Governance ( ESG) is currently at the forefront of discussions around trade and export finance, yet its application in this field is still unclear. At a time where a lot of money is moving from traditional financing into sustainable financing, market participants want to know how ESG can be implemented (and documented) into their transactions in a meaningful way. In this blog post, we consider some of the key ways in which ESG has impacted trade and export finance, including Green and Social Loans, Sustainability Linked Loans and the push...

BDN represents another chapter for US leadership to address global needs and safeguard the international system from predatory behavior.

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Standard Bank commits to adopt climate strategy in 2022 News24 Standard Bank says it will adopt a climate strategy. The strategy will also set targets to reduce the bank's exposure to fossil fuel assets. These will be published in the next annual reporting cycle, in the first half of 2022. Standard Bank has committed itself to publish a climate strategy in the next Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Report (TCFD). The bank, which is the largest lender in the continent, has been receiving backlash from environmental activists for several years now regarding its decisions to fi...