Beating Climate Change: Why Finance Needs to Flow to Small Entrepreneurs in the Pacific and Caribbean

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Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean and Pacific could help battle the ever more dramatic effects of climate change, but at the moment there is little of the right kind of finance available to help their businesses to take off.

These were the findings of recent research presented at a live event run by the Investment Climate Reform Facility.

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