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The State of Green Business 2021

GreenBiz

Net-zero" became a key commitment during 2020 — goals that aim to eliminate, at least on paper, a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, water extractions, fossil-fuel use or deforestation activities by a given date. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% This article was first published by The Energy Mix.

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This Week’s Fund News: Federated Hermes Partners with UK Museum on Biodiversity

Chris Hall

Global asset manager Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity fund, with insights from the UK’s Natural History Museum. Managed by Ingrid Kukuljan, the firm’s Head of Impact and Sustainable Investing, the fund is classified as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

The actions being taken by signatories to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment to tackle whole life carbon are critical because they are driving emissions reductions now and in the future. Together, the three industries emit close to 6 Gt of CO2 per year and are absolutely critical to limiting global warming to 1.5ºC.

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This Week’s Fund News: Mediolanum Picks KBI, Pictet for Circular Fund

Chris Hall

The fund’s objective is to achieve long-term capital growth through the selection of companies that contribute to the transition towards a sustainable circular economy, a model that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).