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

Corporate Knights

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. However, the risks from biodiversity loss are enormous. About US$44 trillion per year of this global output is dependent on nature.

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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.”

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3 Sustainability Leaders (That Are Saving The World)

Carlos Sanchez

We live in a historical moment where we can choose to go back to the old world of pollution and waste or to accelerate the transition to a future where profits are not against the planet or people. The world is waking up from COVID19 lockdowns and many are questioning the way our society was built. As Executive Secretary of the U.N.