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Fellowship Empowers Young People With the Power of Sustainability Storytelling

3BL Media

The fellowship provides financial support, a stipend of $5,000, access to networks of advisors and experts, and skills training such as leadership development, storytelling workshops, speaking opportunities, and other professional opportunities. Originally, Girl Rising launched as a film , which later became an organization.

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We can escape “the era of pandemics” says biodiversity expert group, but it will require transformation

Envirotec Magazine

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there is a transformative change in the global approach to dealing with infectious diseases, warns a new report on biodiversity and pandemics by 22 leading experts from around the world.

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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Acting for Nature

3BL Media

Nature underpins societal wellbeing by providing basic life support services and material goods such as soil, air, water, food, fuel, and fibre 1 , so the impacts of nature loss are wide-reaching and threaten the foundations of our global economies, livelihoods, and food systems 2,3.

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A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems

James Militzer

Through extensive workshops and knowledge exchanges, plus Convergence’s more than 15 years of evidence and our databank of 750+ blended finance transactions that have demonstrated the most effective approaches and structures, we collectively agreed on an action plan to increase investment from $240 billion to $530 billion annually.

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Reflections and Solutions from the Andean Region: An interview with Experts from Argentina, Ecuador and Chile

Sustainable Development Network

He emphasized the need to create "a fairer global economy" and to recover the balance we have lost: "balance with ourselves, balance with others, balance with Mother Earth, balance with the cosmos and balance with God". and a recovering of values" are needed, in addition to "a collective consciousness and overcoming [.]

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Key business consultation survey launched to finalise policy recommendations on nature

Eco-Business

The science is clear that the health of the planet is declining at rates never seen in human history and that it is putting our global economy at risk, as well as undermining human health and well-being, societal resilience, and progress towards the SDGs.

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State of Corporate Conservation 2023: The Journey Towards Nature Positivity

3BL Media

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.