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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. In March 2022, the Network for Greening the Financial System , a coalition of more than 120 central banks and supervisors, published a new statement , acknowledging that biodiversity loss could lead to significant macroeconomic and financial stability risks.

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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

Bending the curve to 1.5°C. The Glasgow Climate Pact also criticized the traditional channels of public funds that set the conditions for finance to flow, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Finance pledges and cries of ‘greenwashing’. As a former senior U.N. C this century, well beyond the 1.5°C

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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.”