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AllianceBernstein: Nurturing Nature - Why Investors Should Care About Biodiversity

3BL Media

Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. That’s why biodiversity loss alone could cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the coming years, in addition to trillions more related to climate change.

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How European Climate Policy Can Bolster Energy Efficiency Measures

3BL Media

These are just a few of the nightmare scenarios evoked by UN Secretary General António Guterres following the publication in April of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate science. We’re on a pathway to global warming of more than double the 1.5°C

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A Walled-Off Garden

Sense and Sustainability

While much of the world has been filled with a quiet but growing concern over climate change, some have attempted to “crack” the problem of climate change, offering up technocratic shifts that provide resolution without revolution. According to this argument, U.S.

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Global Commons Stewardship Index contrasts how countries impact the environment at home and abroad

Sustainable Development Network

The Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index is a composite of the latest breakthroughs in sustainability indicators, focusing attention on how countries are af­fecting the Global Commons both within their borders and through impacts embodied in trade and consumption (so-called “international spillovers”). Read the full report.

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ESG Explainer: Call of the Wild

Chris Hall

If we don’t respond, not only will a massive array of the rural and vulnerable poor not have access to key resources, but nor will the rest of the global economy,” says Wendy Elliott, Deputy Practice Leader and Innovation Lead for Wildlife at WWF Kenya. What influence does IPBES have?

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Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

EJOLT

This interview with Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria, from the research team of the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) explains how a global movement for environmental justice has risen. They also make the connection with the global economy and the need for degrowth.

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Global Cleantech Jobs on the Rise

Sense and Sustainability

Propelled by reduced production costs and the looming threat of climate change, demand for renewable energy and efficiency is increasing across the globe. Since at least 2012, these factors have quietly driven the growth of companies focused on producing renewable energy, efficient technologies, and electric vehicles.