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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” That work was meant to conclude by 2020. billion in 2020/21 and another $1.5

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Technology Collaborations and Innovations to Accelerate Climate Progress

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The annual United Nations Climate Change report - coinciding with the 27 th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt - concludes that while countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions downward, accelerated progress and collaboration are critical to our planet’s future.

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana injected a unique sense of optimism that steered world leaders to reach the Paris Agreement in 2015. She is Convener of Mission 2020 , an initiative to ensure the world bends the curve on greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 protecting the most vulnerable.