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A record-breaking US$9.8 billion has been pledged by 27 countries to replenish the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the next four years. The funds – comprising public and private sector resources – will be invested in low-income countries to help reduce their emissions and adapt to the negative impacts of climate change, such as coastal flooding, shrinking crop yields and extreme weather events. The total amount surpasses the $9.3 billion pledged in 2014 at the last fundraising round.
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The Chinese online-only insurer ZhongAn announced in June the development of a blockchain platform for the chicken supply chain. The platform logs all transactions relating to each chicken permanently on a decentralised ledger. Each chicken gets a device that records its birth, the farms it was reared in, and the factories and logistic suppliers it passed through post-slaughter. As a result, every individual chicken will have an identity and each of its steps in the supply chain will be traceable.
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