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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. It represents a growth of 14% from last year and sets a record on the number of CDP environmental disclosures. WBCSD, From Challenge to Opportunity: The role of business in tomorrow’s society, 2006.

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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. To end deforestation, CDP says the scale and speed of action by companies must increase.

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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.) percent of its GDP. Skeptics have criticized its commitment for not going far enough. .