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Greensand Turns Carbon Storage From a Permit Into an Operating Chain
Denmark’s Greensand project has moved Europe’s full-scale offshore carbon storage from approval to operation. Its significance lies in the whole chain: captured biogenic CO₂, ship transport, reused offshore infrastructure, injection and long-term monitoring.
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Latest analysisFiji Is Pairing Policy Reform With Money That Can Move During a Crisis
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Mark and Focus Monthly · September 2026
The Rules of Delivery
Five apparently unrelated decisions reveal how governments and institutions are changing the way policy commitments become operating results.
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Fiji Is Pairing Policy Reform With Money That Can Move During a Crisis
ADB will provide Fiji with US$200 million for policy reform and US$10 million for disaster financing. The package joins fiscal, digital and risk-management reforms with a funding window intended to respond rapidly when emergencies strike.
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Indonesia’s Local-Service Reform Runs Through the Fiscal Data Layer
ADB has approved a US$650 million program to strengthen Indonesia’s decentralized public finance.
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Malawi Is Turning Social Protection Into Climate-Response Infrastructure
A US$165.9 million World Bank grant will combine cash transfers, drought-responsive finance, climate-smart public works, jobs support and modernized delivery systems across Malawi.
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Southeast Asia’s US$6 Billion Blue-Economy Push Starts Inland
The Asian Development Bank will mobilize up to US$6 billion through 2030 for Southeast Asia’s seas and coastal economies.
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Brazil’s Urban Nature Strategy Treats Maintenance as National Policy
Brazil’s draft national strategy for urban nature-based solutions sets a 2026–2035 action plan spanning regulation, finance, justice, maintenance and data.
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Japan’s Circular-Economy Review Shows Where Progress Has Flattened
Japan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
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