It helps cities understand their exposure to climate challenges and develop plans and strategies to reduce emissions and vulnerability to climate risks, among others

The focus areas of collaboration include financing adaptation solutions, supporting knowledge, tolls and capacity-building on adaptation and sharing best practices and data

Innovations sought include refrigerated warehousing, space conditioning for packaging and sorting, inter and intra-city mobile cooling solutions for pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive goods

Korea will work jointly with the IFC to deploy resources in targeted ways that deliver on the new climate ambitions of their partnership

The programme is funded by the UK Government’s International Climate Finance, offering a total of $1.5m in grant funding for the pilot implementation

The funding will contribute to a programme that helps boost security through knowledge exchange, policy advice and project preparation

It will assist with the sustainable extraction and processing of minerals and metals used in clean energy technologies

Richard Branson and Usain Bolt were part of the launch of the Caribbean ClimateSmart Accelerator yesterday

The World Bank has approved a $5.1 million (£3m) grant to support “climate smart” crop production in China. China’s intensive crop production relies on high and inefficient use of fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation water inputs, the Bank said. There are also unsustainable crop production practices, which includes straw burning, flood irrigation and low rates of […]