Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Interestingly, it is the product’s supply chain, or what we do not see related to making and distributing products, that is especially carbon intensive. the average person’s consumption of stuff has doubled in the past 50 years and, in 2019, North Americans disposed of almost 21 kilograms of electronic waste per person.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 3, 2020
When surveyed in 2019, 42 percent of our member companies put "biodiversity risk" as important or very important to them. We need much stronger alignment with all stakeholders in the value chain surrounding industry to adequately scale the rapid adoption of next generation solutions that truly protect our biodiversity. Supply Chain.
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Chris Hall
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
But a recent paper on blended finance by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) noted that just US$14 billion in climate finance was mobilised through blended finance solutions for EMDEs in 2019. . Steady momentum . New opportunities for climate- and nature-positive impact investments are emerging, rapidly. .
Chris Hall
MARCH 9, 2022
But, as highlighted in a 2019 paper published by research and innovation lab AidData and UN-Habitat , working out where and how to invest is complicated, with a number of hard and soft costs for investors to consider. Last year, UNEP FI published guidance outlining the kinds of resilient buildings needed to cope with new climate extremes.
Chris Hall
APRIL 19, 2023
Last year, UNEP FI issued a briefing paper for investors and other financial institutions which said “there is no foreseeable way in which the financing of [DSM] activities can be viewed as consistent with the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles”.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 20, 2023
Despite this trend, commentators like Dan Carlin, UNEP FI’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Program Lead, have made the case for further engagement with the fossil fuel industry. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5
Chris Hall
JULY 13, 2022
The wild species use report builds on previous 2019 IPBES research to identify just how reliant we are on nature, in the knowledge that a million are under threat of extinction, in no small part due to over-exploitation. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference. What has IPBES already told us?
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