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Investor Guidance Offers Steer on Uyghur Forced Labour

Chris Hall

The Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR), together with Anti-Slavery International and Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, has released investor guidance on how to address Uyghur-linked human rights risks in the green technology supply chain.

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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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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.

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Behind My Title of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer- And What It Means to Be an Impact Company

3BL Media

Today, 78% of our product sales come from this program, and we plan to reach 80% by 2025. This is anchored in our comprehensive net-zero science-based targets and an ambitious impact plan for 2025 that includes saving 800 million tons of CO2 emissions for our customers by that time.

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Overshoot is Here

Chris Hall

R estoration c apital w ill become c ore to the c limate n arrative towards the 2025 r atchet , says Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at the Inevitable Policy Response. If some current market signals are correct, then the fog of inflationary risks and forthcoming recession remains, but with an end in sight. errr …in the present.

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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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Escalating Water

Chris Hall

By 2025, two-thirds of the world could face water shortages – ecosystems are not even factored into these calculations. Negash calls the work groundbreaking, and especially important for GEPF, as it can’t divest from specific sectors easily, given that its investment universe is quite small compared to its global peers.