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Moving From Sustainability Talk to Action

3BL Media

Prolonged droughts, frequent floods, sea level rise, and drying rivers and lakes are climate change consequences. Investments and commitments made to enhance water supply, water restoration, and destressing water basins demonstrate corporate social responsibility. Why is this a triple-bottom-line issue?

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Global Perspectives on the Difference Between CSR and ESG

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Sustainability efforts have gained momentum as businesses and governments experience the mounting impact of climate change. This lack of consensus is evident in the way Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are used from country to country, region to region.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Wearing nubbly woolen sweaters and a full grey beard, he started each class with a brief meditation before launching into the subject at hand: the social and environmental devastation wrought by the corporate world the students were clamouring to enter. Nowhere did these by-products of economic growth appear on balance sheets.

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Climate Finance: Moving Forward After COP26

3BL Media

SUMMARY: The need for climate finance – the local, national, or transnational financing that enables climate change mitigation and adaptation – was much debated at COP26. However, the onus is now firmly on government, policy and corporate stakeholders to translate ambition into impact. SOURCE: EcoVadis.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Meg Wilcox. Charlotte Bande, 29. Jesse Klein.

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