Eco-Business

JULY 22, 2025

Some 740 million women worldwide lack access even to a bank account. trillion per year to the global economy. Female labour force participation amounts to just under 47 per cent globally, compared to 72 per cent for men. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Image: Helena Pfisterer , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Unsplash.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

JPMorgan Chase wants to be the commercial bank for ‘green economy’ companies. The new Green Economy team is explicitly tasked with providing services for companies — notably private entities in need of capital — that are poised to benefit from the transition. Heather Clancy. Mon, 04/12/2021 - 00:05. The largest U.S.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years. and Volkswagen.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

JULY 25, 2025

Subscribe to unlock this article Try unlimited access Only $1 for 4 weeks Then $75 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Because Fariha didn’t qualify for a bank loan, she sought the capital for her Punjab pottery and handicrafts business from her husband, but when COVID-19 put an end to face-to-face sales, she felt like she had nowhere else to turn. Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business.

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3BL Media

MAY 28, 2024

Q: Why is the decarbonization of the banking sector so important? Banks are at the center of the global economy. Almost every activity that affects the climate, whether it’s mining, manufacturing, or agriculture, needs financing. Click here to read the previous Q & A. How can it be achieved?

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Finance professionals make up a fraction of the global population but are positioned to make and incentivize decisions that can shape the trajectory of the global economy," observed Ogechukwu Anyene, energy consulting manager at PowerAdvocate, who was part of the Emerging Leaders cohort at GreenBiz Group’s inaugural GreenFin event.

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Canada unveiled its response to the emerging global race to scale up green energy and clean tech manufacturing capacity, with proposals for over $60 billion in tax credits and an additional $20 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments in its 2023 budget, presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Over the next 20 years, Great Bear Sea funding is expected to seed 200 new businesses supporting 3,000 jobs in sustainable fisheries, manufacturing and processing, marine stewardship and research, transportation, ecotourism and more. It’s not just us saying it. We’re actually tracking it.” billion worth of ecosystem services per year.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2024

kilograms of plastic waste from entering the ocean since the start of our partnership with Plastic Bank [1] 100% renewable electricity sourcing at all CooperVision facilities in New York and the United Kingdom Governance Adherence to high standards of ethics, compliance and accountability provides long-term value for our stakeholders.

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Gail Tverberg

APRIL 5, 2023

The problem I see is that rich countries expect to maintain service economies that are fed by huge streams of manufactured goods and raw materials from poorer countries. With the high level of debt that the world economy has today, major defaults are a worry. Europe excludes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recognizing the very real threat to global economies and ecosystems posed by biodiversity loss, prominent global corporations are venturing beyond the atmosphere and into the biosphere. Thirdly, central banks and financial institutions increasingly view biodiversity loss as a systemic risk to financial systems.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Firstly, the global economy is in the midst of the clean energy transition, one of the biggest changes to an economic system since the second industrial revolution, which introduced mass production in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. Dynamic market expansion. per litre respectively in July 2022. Importance of collaboration.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

The 270-page document lays out eight priorities for the shift to a clean economy: electrification, clean energy, clean manufacturing, emissions reduction, critical minerals, infrastructure, electric vehicles and batteries, and major projects. Thomas, Ontario once the deal has been finalized.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. In St John River Forest in Maine (US), The Nature Conservancy bought 75,000 hectares from the pulp and paper manufacturer International Paper.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Our goal is to take this 'whole-of-government' approach and turn it into a 'whole-of-economy' approach. Delivering those contributions will require bold and urgent action — nothing less than transforming important sectors of the global economy, especially when it comes to how we generate power and move people and goods.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

While high profits at a firm level can indicate economic vitality, at a national level it’s usually a sign of economic rot and oligopolistic market structures (five big banks, four big grocery stores, three big telcos, one big fertilizer company serving 36 million people). 6 24 WSP Global Inc Engineering construction $174,951.00

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. is not a party to the convention, but that matters little in these days of the global economy and the multinational companies many of you work for or the international supply chains you are all part of. I have to clarify that the U.S. and Canada.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

An acceleration in export-led manufacturing growth followed in East and Southeast Asian economies such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. High-income economies were also strong advocates — and indeed beneficiaries — of trade liberalization in its early stages.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

With around 70% of the global economy now committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, the urgency of exiting coal and completely phasing out fossil fuel subsidies is clear. and the European Union, now covers more than two-thirds of the global economy. Coal emits around 980 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (kWh), 2.5

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

In related news, NatWest Group issued this week the first bond by a UK bank dedicated to financing and re-financing electric vehicles (EV), raising net proceeds of €750 million (US$811.4 We now want to see CfDs rewarding developers who invest in UK manufacturing, skills and port infrastructure.

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaways: The initial wave of sanctions targeted Russian banks and the financial industry plus individual “inner circle” elites, with more sanctions likely to follow in the coming weeks as events unfold. The entities designated on February 24, 2022 include: VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (“VTB”) and 20 of its subsidiaries.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC. The newly anointed group sustainability chief for one of Europe’s largest banks, HSBC — a role she will assume in July — London-based Celine Herweijer is a familiar feature in the continent’s corporate climate movement. LinkedIn | Twitter. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

To address these concerns we are beginning to factor the life cycles of the products we manufacture. The Netherlands is among those who support a circular economy this not only addresses the problem of solid waste it manages carbon holistically. Businesses, banks, and investors.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 9, 2025

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is a UN-backed initiative founded in 2021 ahead of the COP26 climate summit that brings together global banks committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net zero emissions by 2050.The Starting in 2024, major banks began to exit the NZBA.

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