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

Corporate Knights

The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities. Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now.

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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit

We Mean Business Coalition

Historic progress was made with countries agreeing to channel financial support to vulnerable communities that are already suffering devastating impacts from climate change. The deal struck in Sharm El Sheikh provided little towards changing that trend. Companies teaming up to send demand signals is also a growing trend.

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

As they work towards their climate goals, companies must prioritize people – and the just transition has been a key theme at this COP. This will make greenwashing easier to detect and allow those companies that are really delivering on climate action to show their impact.

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Take-off for the Net Zero Transition  

Chris Hall

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. UN Climate Change’s NDC synthesis report found they would collectively only deliver a 5.3%