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Business Standard
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Blended finance in India: Scaling up needs regulatory clarity and capital
The UN Financing for Development conference offers a pivotal platform to reimagine blended finance for the decade ahead Kartikeya N Desai Listen to This Article As the world's finance ministers, business leaders, fund managers, and foundations convene in Spain for the fourth UN Conference on Financing for Development (FFD), a harsh reality looms large: We are alarmingly off-track, to the tune of $4 trillion, to meet the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Official development assistance (ODA) has been stagnant, and there have been body blows like the reduction by about 80 per cent of the American ODA budget, and the recent withdrawal by the Trump administration from the FFD4 process itself. In this environment, mobilising private capital at scale is essential to achieve the SDGs. This
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Fountain Fire hosts town hall to discuss mitigation
(FOUNTAIN, Colo.) — The Fountain Fire Department (FFD) hosted a town hall on Thursday evening, May 8, to discuss the City's wildland mitigation efforts. According to FFD, the goal of the town hall was to educate and foster discussion around wildland fire safety and mitigation strategies, especially within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)—areas where development meets natural vegetation and fire risk is elevated. Attendees heard from representatives of FFD, the Fountain Police Department, Fountain Utilities, the Fountain Parks Department, and the Office of the City Manager. The department detailed a mitigation project it completed last month in Hibbard Park–a spot City Parks believes has a high wildfire risk. Crews thinned out brush and grass which could help spread a wildland fire. The City has also identified seven to eight open spaces FFD wants to address immediately with mitigation. FFD stressed that the community is pivotal to the department's responses to fire events. 'On those high fire danger days, those high fire risk days, if you see something, say something,' said Division Chief Jared Cass. 'If you see smoke, call 911. Don't assume somebody else has already called, because maybe nobody has. And the sooner we get notified about those, the quicker we can put them out, the smaller they stay, the less damage to the environment and our community.' FPD reminds the community that the best way to stay connected to first responders and be alerted if ever there is a wildland emergency is to sign up for community notifications at Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
