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ESG Explainer: Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain

Chris Hall

The impact of human rights abuses in portfolio companies and their supply chains is becoming more apparent to investors. Martin Buttle, Head of Good Work at NGO ShareAction says, given the estimates, “there is a very real chance that victims are present in the global supply chains” of investee companies.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea’s divestment, along with pressure from other institutions, such as Norwegian pension fund KPL, led to a pledge from JBS to use blockchain to monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including the problematic "indirect suppliers" that have been linked to illegal deforestation.

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

Most of these cases can be taught within multiple business disciplines such as leadership, strategic management, supply chains and marketing, to name a few — making them useful tools not only for emerging entrepreneurs themselves, but for the educators who are training them. housing market typically works.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. They can also divest from high-emitting industries such as thermal coal production. trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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The ESG Interview: Learn from the Past, Look to the Future

Chris Hall

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. Disputing divestment. We cannot just divest from fossil fuels; we need a fair and just transition to the net zero economy.”.

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The 10 Big Things To Watch Across World’s Energy Markets in 2023

3BL Media

million b/d in 2015. The divestment movement will wane. Lithium and nickel prices will remain elevated, given the uncertainty surrounding China’s reopening after lifting its Covid Zero policy and the continued disruption to metal supply chains due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Chinese demand grew to 15.4

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Overshoot is Here

Chris Hall

However, despite a positive trend for climate policy acceleration as detailed in the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) tracking reports since 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow, the lag between ambition and progress since the 2015 Paris Accord will be laid bare, no matter how it is dressed up.