COP17: 'World first' financing platform for drought resilience aims to mobilise up to $400m

Stuart Stone
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Credit: © UNCCD/Kiara Worth
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Credit: © UNCCD/Kiara Worth

Drought Resilience Investment Facility and Drought Resilience Index unveiled at UN desertification summit in Mongolia

A new platform created to mobilise up to $400m in public and private funding for drought resilience projects in low- and lower-middle-income countries has been unveiled at the COP17 UN desertification...

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