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Nick Robins and Mark Nicholls examine lessons from initiatives to scale up finance for climate action that actively seeks positive outcomes for people, drawing on the first six case studies published by the Just Transition Finance Lab: from North Macedonia, Spain, Philippines, Chile, India and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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