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Why Slow Money?

3BL Media

Since the slow money movement’s first low interest loan to a local organic farm in 2010, more than $80 million has flowed to over 800 small farms and local food businesses, via volunteer-led groups in a few dozen communities. Some Thoughts on Fiduciary Responsibility, Mutually Assured Destruction and Small, Diversified Organic Farms.

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Eleven years ago, in 2010, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP15, developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high.

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UN Report Finds Global Climate Plans Insufficient to Hit 1.5 Degree Goal

ESG Today

One of the key highlights of last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact , was a call on countries to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions targets, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). by 2030, compared to 2010 levels, this marked a significant improvement over last year’s assessment of a 13.7%

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. CDL also maintained an ‘AAA’ leader rating by MSCI ESG Research since 2010.

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CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 Zeroes in on Bolder Decarbonisation Targets

3BL Media

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. CDL also maintained an ‘AAA’ leader rating by MSCI ESG Research since 2010.

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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

However, the study found that just one in 20 (5%) of the European companies in the study are on track to achieve their net-zero target dates in their own operations, covering scope 1 and 2 emissions, if they continue the pace of emissions reduction that they achieved between 2010 and 2019, with only 9% on course to meet a 2050 target.

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Time to Show ‘True Grit’ on Climate Adaptation

Chris Hall

Or even for the Coen Brothers’ 2010 remake of the classic Western ‘True Grit’, from which the quote above is taken. A work programme for a Global Goal on Adaptation was agreed at COP26 in Glasgow two years ago, and developed nations pledged to double adaptation finance levels by 2025 from a 2019 baseline to around US$40 billion.

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