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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

The Biodiversity Benchmark , developed in partnership with The Biodiversity Consultancy and Conservation International and supported by Sappi, will enable companies to understand their impacts and dependencies on nature in their materials sourcing strategies, chart a pathway to delivering positive biodiversity outcomes, and benchmark their progress.

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

Corporate Knights

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. The newly launched international initiative Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is developing a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related financial risks. Read the original article.

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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.” Officials cast it as one major part of a process that also includes a phaseout of public financing for domestic fossil fuel projects through Crown agencies like Export Development Canada. Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024.

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COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

Renewable Energy World

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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From Ambition to Action

Chris Hall

As countries begin the countdown to the 16 th UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) in Colombia later this year, the pressure is mounting on governments to develop ambitious – and credible – plans to halt or reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Isciel also co-chairs the FfB’s public policy advocacy working group.

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Minneapolis Health Department splits the bill with green investors

Renewable Energy World

For this reason, his department works with other city departments, like the sustainability office, clean energy advisory committee, and the community planning / economic development department. You really start to bend the curve down towards hitting your 80% reduction goals by 2050, if you can maintain that level of reduction.

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This Week’s Fund News: Federated Hermes Partners with UK Museum on Biodiversity

Chris Hall

Managed by Ingrid Kukuljan, the firm’s Head of Impact and Sustainable Investing, the fund is classified as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). Each theme also considers multiple sub-themes aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).