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#1319092021-11-24
Singapore keen to partner European businesses in low carbon solutions, green finance: Gan Kim Yong
The Republic is keen to partner European businesses to make strides in low carbon solutions and green finance as it establishes itself as a regional carbon service hub, said Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong on Friday (Nov 19).
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#1319002021-11-24
Alternative pathways
The Fiji Blue Carbon project is expected to identify alternative pathways and financing options to safeguard Fiji’s management and restoration of mangroves.
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#1319012021-11-24
HSBC Launches Indexes That Screen Firms for Biodiversity Risk
Investors looking for ESG strategies have been handed a new group of indexes promising to focus on biodiversity by excluding companies that are found to pose a threat to nature. The Euronext ESG Biodiversity Screened Index series is being launched on Tuesday by HSBC Holdings Plc, which develope ...
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#1319032021-11-24
The Environment Act and the role of 'biodiversity net-gain'
The biodiversity net-gain requirement is among the most important conservation policy initiatives of the last two decades, argues Environment Bank chairman and founder Professor David Hill CBE
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#1319042021-11-24
Asia Pacific Rayon unveils ambitious 2030 sustainability agenda
Asia Pacific Rayon (APR), Indonesia’s largest integrated viscose rayon producer, has launched its ten-year sustainability vision, APR2030.
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#1319052021-11-24
Nature can't wait
30x30 will not happen by itself; it will require time, attention, and money. Economists estimate that achieving this goal – by conserving the world’s most important intact wild areas and restoring crucial degraded habitats – would represent less than one-third of the amount that governments spen ...
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#1319072021-11-24
How businesses can use nature-based solutions to build resilience
The technological solutions using big data, and AI/ML would be useless if the capacity to use is not developed within organizations. The bandwidth to adopt, integrate and use technologies is crucial and can be supported using company processes and building culture. In addition, a nature inclusiv ...
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#1318642021-11-24
Gov't working to create enabling environment for green investments — Charles Jr
Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Pearnel Charles Jr says the government is working to create an enabling environment to stimulate and generate green investments.
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#1318772021-11-24
Investors must assess biodiversity risk: ACSI
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors is urging its members to assess the financial risk posed by biodiversity loss and push companies to do more to protect the environment from deforestation, ecosystem extinction and pollution of the oceans and freshwater resources. New research b ...
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#1318782021-11-24
Ethos to push biodiversity, digital responsibility in engagement strategy
Ethos foundation’s international engagement platform – Ethos Engagement Pool (EEP) International – will address digital responsibility and biodiversity as topics in its dialogue with companies in 2022.
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#1317892021-11-18
Gecina and 15 Other Companies Launch a Research Program Focused on the Biodiversity Footprint of Real Estate Projects With Support from the OID
Led by Gecina (Paris:GFC), several urban and regional stakeholders are taking action to protect biodiversity and launching the Biodiversity Impulsion Group (BIG) program that combines applied research with collective actions.
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#1317482021-11-17
Resilience in diversity: Financing nature and biodiversity
Greece, Turkey and California were aflame in heatwave induced wildfires, Canada was caught under a heat dome and a year’s worth of rain poured over Germany, Belgium, China and Sudan within a couple of days- devastating communities with floods in its wake. The message is clear, we are in a planet ...
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#1310642021-10-22
Nature wants its due and is looking to investors and capital
The lead up to the COP26 climate summit has been dominating headlines – with good reason – but the fate of the planet’s long-term health also hinges on another global conference series that’s already underway.
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#1309732021-10-20
Beauty Brands Building Biodiversity, Better Packaging Solutions
Aveda — a market leader in vegan, cruelty-free, plant-based, sustainable hair care — today announced a partnership with leading packaging provider, Xela Pack, to develop prestige beauty’s first-ever paper-based, locally recyclable sachet.
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#1309252021-10-18
Business leaders call on governments to do more to tackle global biodiversity crisis
Business leaders have urged world leaders to do more to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. In an open letter, signed by the chief executives of H&M , Unilever and nine others, governments are told they risk a “dead planet” if they don’t take meaningful action on mass extinctions of wildlife ...
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#1307032021-10-12
Fresh Del Monte Further Commits to Sustainable Agriculture Practices, Speaking at World Biodiversity Summit
-Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., one of the world’s leading vertically integrated producers, distributors, and marketers of fresh and fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, announced today its participation at this year’s World Biodiversity Summit, occurring alongside the United Nations Climate Change C ...
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#1305592021-09-23
These 8 business leaders are championing a nature-positive economy – Here's why
We know, now more than ever, that our fate as a species is deeply connected with the fate of our natural environment. Nature loss has tangible business and economic impacts. Over half the world’s total GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services and is therefore at risk. We ...
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#1305062021-09-22
Equilibrium/Sustainability — Presented by The American Petroleum Institute — Bezos promises $1 billion for biodiversity
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos announced on Monday that he would put $1 billion into conserving critical landscapes in places like the Amazon and the Congo Basin, The New York Times reported.
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#1304172021-09-14
Spanish rosé that helps protect coral reefs launched
Bodegas Peñascal in Valladolid has launched an ‘ethical’ rosé at its carbon-neutral winery that donates 10% of its profits to the conservation of coral reefs.
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#1303462021-09-09
LVMH, Kering and a big new challenge: Biodiversity
Luxury fashion, like every other sector, is coming under pressure to do more to support biodiversity. That much is clear from the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which is being staged in Marseilles from 3 to 11 September.
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#1301902021-09-01
Price tag on the planet? Helping business value nature
From agriculture to housing to transportation, economic growth has historically depended on burning through finite natural resources and rearranging natural landscapes.
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#1300752021-08-19
Facebook pledges to restore more water than it uses by 2030 as part of effort to combat climate change
Facebook announced plans Thursday to restore more water than it consumes by the year 2030, the company’s latest initiative targeting climate change.
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#1299252021-08-13
‘Your outfit is killing the planet’: the company putting a label on fashion’s climate impact
Your outfit is killing the planet.” That’s the message footwear and clothing company Allbirds is using to raise consumer awareness about the fashion industry’s link to the climate crisis. Figures are debated, but an estimated 10% of annual global carbon emissions originate from the fashion industry.
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#1294272021-06-28
Addressing biodiversity authentically and effectively
Biodiversity provides humanity and our economies with the resources needed to thrive. However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Humans and our planet’s ecosystem are inextricably linked and as our planet warms, the threat to ...
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#1293342021-06-15
“Either We All Win Or We All Lose” – Read Gucci’s Powerful Message To The Fashion Industry
As the Italian fashion house releases its first Impact report, we speak exclusively to the brand’s CEO and president, Marco Bizzarri, about Gucci’s sustainability commitments.
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#1291772021-06-10
Leading companies promise action against biodiversity loss
More than 50 companies across the world have stepped forward to show their shared commitment to protecting biodiversity, according to a news release by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on Wednesday.
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#1291792021-06-10
Leading companies respond to biodiversity loss
More than 50 companies have stepped forward to show their shared commitment as part of the 'Sharm El Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People' in support of the global biodiversity framework expected to be adopted in October at Kunming in China during the 15th Conference of the Part ...
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#1291802021-06-10
Fashion label Chanel invests US$25 million in new climate adaptation fund
French fashion house Chanel is backing a new climate adaptation fund that aims to raise US$100 million by 2025 to invest in projects to promote sustainable agriculture, protect forests and support small-scale farmers in developing countries.
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#1292182021-06-10
Biodiversity: Why Is It A Corporate Concern?
Biodiversity loss is a global phenomenon. Driven by habitat degradation, climate change, the introduction of invasive species and other anthropogenically induced factors, around one million of the eight million plant and animal species on earth are threatened with extinction. Increasingly, biodi ...
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#1292202021-06-10
Biodiversity disclosures set to become part of company reporting
A global initiative aimed at measuring the impact that financial institutions and corporations are having on the natural world, which received an endorsement from French President Emmanuel Macron, is officially underway.
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#1290562021-06-04
3 Reasons Companies Are Investing In Forest Conservation And Restoration, And How They Do It
The world is facing two interdependent environmental crises: the accelerating destruction of nature and climate change. Corporate citizenship is an integral part of the problem and solution to these twin threats.
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#1290932021-06-04
Two-day events of COP15 meeting on biodiversity to conclude in Kunming
A subsidiary event of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) kicked off Sunday in Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Co-hosted by the Secretariat Office of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Ministry ...
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#1290162021-06-02
Amorepacific Commits To Biodiversity Conservation, Green Chemistry in New Sustainability Goal
Amorepacific’s newly announced ‘2030 A More Beautiful Promise,” is the beauty giant’s new set of sustainability management goals it aims to achieve by 2030. There are five goals under two guiding pillars—which are “moving forward together with customers and society” and “coexisting responsibly w ...
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#1289202021-05-31
Guerlain strengthens its commitment to biodiversity by joining UEBT
The French luxury brand has joined the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT), thus reinforcing its commitment to carefully control the environmental and social impact of its supply chain.
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#1287322021-05-20
Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes
From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record.
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#1285782021-05-12
HeidelbergCement launches biodiversity competition
HeidelbergCement has launched the fifth edition of the Quarry Life Award, its nature-based competition involving more than 20 countries worldwide. Researchers, students, local communities, NGOs and nature lovers from around the world can pitch their ideas for sustainable quarry management, with ...
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#1285262021-05-11
Champions League final switch good for environment but football must do more
It was bad enough in 2019 when tens of thousands of football supporters from the United Kingdom traipsed across Europe to watch two English clubs, Tottenham and Liverpool, play the Champions League final at Atlético Madrid’s stadium in Spain. More easily, cheaply and comfortably they could have ...
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#1285032021-05-07
Regenerative Agriculture, Coming Soon to a Timberland Shoe Near You
Regenerative agriculture was once a backwater of experimental farming strategies. Now Timberland, and its parent company VF Corporation, have pushed it into the limelight by announcing the first regenerative rubber supply system in the apparel industry.
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#1284532021-05-06
Apple, Conservation International introduce mangrove carbon credit
There’s a fresh nature-based carbon project in town, and she’s getting attention from corporations with ambitious net-zero goals. Her name? Mangroves, a type of tree species and coastal forest ecosystem native to the tropics and subtropics.
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#1284562021-05-06
Net Zero Nature: Can business and nature join forces in the climate fight?
Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy
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#1283922021-05-05
Housebuilding industry can be at the forefront of biodiversity
Biodiversity should be considered at the earliest stages of planning new home developments to encourage wildlife and help reverse habitat decline, according to a new report from the NHBC Foundation, with the support of the RSPB and Barratt Developments.
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#1284062021-05-05
SHEBA® unveils Hope Reef: World's Largest Coral Restoration Program Announced
Leading cat food brand SHEBA® has begun work on the world's largest coral restoration program, which aims to restore more than 185,000 square meters of coral reefs around the world by 2029
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#1284072021-05-05
Making a positive impact: how tech is helping us restore planet earth
Robot jellyfish, and staying in your pajamas – how are these things helping to save the world? We explore how technology is tackling some of the planet’s biggest environmental concerns. Some of these initiatives help humans, some help trees, some help the sea – but all help planet earth!
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#1284082021-05-05
The Role of Businesses in Environmental Efforts
With decennial arctic ice drops of 13.1 percent and rising temperatures, per NASA figures, more countries and businesses have deemed it imperative to stop or slow down climate change. While adopting ecologically mindful practices would require spending from the private sector,
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#1284212021-05-05
Chanel collaborates with Cambridge University on sustainability
Chanel is collaborating with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to focus on sustainability solutions and leadership. The three-year partnership will initially work on building an education and sustainability leadership programme, innovative operational pro ...
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#1284222021-05-05
Alcoa Releases 2020 Sustainability Report
Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) has released its 2020 Sustainability Report, which provides a comprehensive overview of the Company’s progress against key environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives.
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#1282852021-04-27
BMO to Chair Global Cross-Sector Biodiversity Initiative
BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) has been appointed Chair of the Cross-Sector Biodiversity Initiative (CSBI). The CSBI is a partnership of the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), the International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM), the Eq ...
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#1282492021-04-26
Japan's ANA aims for carbon neutrality by 2050
It comes after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced last week that Japan would target a 46-percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, significantly more than previously pledged.
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#1281762021-04-22
Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative to Preserve Ocean Ecosystems
Through its Perpetual Planet initiative, Rolex is lending its support to the effort to preserve ocean ecosystems for posterity.
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#1281922021-04-22
Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions
Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments.