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Collaboration, Transparency and Monitoring Enabling Faster Deforestation Progress, Shows the Consumer Goods Forum’s Report

3BL Media

The report, ‘Perspectives on Progress: Challenges and Insights on the Way to Forest Positive’ , marks three years since the Coalition started implementing its Theory of Change. Being forest positive for us means sustainable economic development, improved livelihoods, and climate positive outcomes.

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Coalition of Consumer Goods Companies Pushes for Corporate Investment in Production Landscapes in Latest Report

3BL Media

Such investment is a key element of the Coalition’s Forest Positive Approach , a set of actions that Coalition members are committed to implementing in their own supply chains through commodity-specific KPI reporting and, in collaboration with their upstream supply chain partners, in businesses and production landscapes across the value chain.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

2020 was the year that…. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 02:11. To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we've published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.)

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Burberry Steps Out With New £300m Sustainability Loan

3BL Media

Burberry has strengthened its resolve to be climate positive by 2040 by refinancing a credit facility to a £300m Sustainability Linked Loan. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C pathway laid out in the Paris Agreement.

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More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together

GreenBiz

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. Despite the significant challenges we’re facing in the world, we still have it in our own hands to change the direction of the climate crisis.

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Demystifying the ?Absolute Zero? concept

GreenBiz

Fri, 05/29/2020 - 02:15. The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Heather Clancy.

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Leaning into Resilience: Three Ways Small and Growing Agriculture Businesses Have Navigated Global Crises – And How Investors Can Support Them

James Militzer

These businesses have struggled with pandemic-driven logistics and supply chain issues, large fluctuations in supply and demand, and policy shifts — for example, export bans on certain crops — that have upended their business models. When COVID hit in early 2020, many investors paused disbursements due to the increased risk.