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Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism

GreenBiz

The race among AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine perfectly exemplifies the difficulty of satisfying the needs of each stakeholder group simultaneously. The IFRS Foundation, for example, recently consulted on the establishment of a Sustainability Standards Board and looks set to pursue its establishment.

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Finance Majors Invest in “Cleaner, Greener” Farming

Chris Hall

The organisations concerned are Dutch bank Rabobank, Mexican development institution FIRA, multilateral funder the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Mauritian private equity group Phatisa, Norwegian chemical company Yara, US asset manager Nuveen Natural Capital and Dutch group Signature Agri Investments.

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Are we Eating up Our World?

Chris Hall

Standardising environmental and social impacts in land-use investments needs to be a priority for the financial sector. Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects.

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