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Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Alt-credit and mobile-money apps give African fintechs a closeup view of climate risks – and opportunities. Financial technology firms have leveraged billions of data points across mobile phones and social media to transform loan underwriting for the emerging consumer class. In turn, data from those users is providing fintech service providers real-time insight into something else: the accelerating climate impacts on farmers and rural communities and the urban poor. In Africa, demand for climate data is growing across supply chains to underwrite micro-insuranc...

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Alt-credit and mobile-money apps give African fintechs a closeup view of climate risks – and opportunities. Financial technology firms have leveraged billions of data points across mobile phones and social media to transform loan underwriting for the emerging consumer class. In turn, data from those users is providing fintech service providers real-time insight into something else: the accelerating climate impacts on farmers and rural communities and the urban poor. In Africa, demand for climate data is growing across supply chains to underwrite micro-insuranc...

Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Former Kerry aide named to NSC climate post Source: By Jean Chemnick, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Melanie Nakagawa will focus on climate change as part of the White House National Security Council in the Biden administration. American University Washington College of Law Melanie Nakagawa will become the top climate staffer on the White House National Security Council, working on everything from the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement to President-elect Joe Biden’s objective of integrating climate change into a...