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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future. In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. Besides, the global responsible investing driven assets hit $40.5

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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

Between August 2020 and July 2021, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached its highest level since 2006, with 13,235 square kilometres of rainforest destroyed, according to Brazil’s space research agency INPE. What did world leaders commit to do at COP26 to stop deforestation?