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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 It also undermines the COP26 Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use by failing to tackle much of the UK’s deforestation footprint abroad, according to analysis by NGO Global Witness. . C by 2050. .

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO? What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation? To end deforestation, CDP says the scale and speed of action by companies must increase.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Answering A Question From COP26: “Hell Yes”. Jim Boyle, CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc, as a delegate of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Meadows died too young in 2001, but her work has grown increasingly more important, as it was focused on systems change to avert environmental collapse.