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How unchecked consumerism helps drive climate change

Corporate Knights

As extreme weather events in Canada and around the world are linked to human-made climate change , there is one story that continues to be left out: the connection between climate change and the products we purchase. Our stuff, consumerism and climate change. times the product’s weight.

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#TooGoodToWaste: A Global Call to Action To Stop Household Food Waste

3BL Media

Food loss and waste is a critical environmental, social and governance problem requiring urgent whole-of-chain action. The Consumer Goods Forum Food Waste Coalition of Action is committed to cutting food loss and waste —some 40% of all food grown is wasted. How can we help more people to waste less food?

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Delterra, the Global Methane Hub and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Partner To Reduce Methane Emissions in the Global South

3BL Media

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 28, 2023 /3BL/ - Ahead of COP28, the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), The Global Methane Hub (GMH) and Delterra are proud to announce their partnership to reduce methane emissions in the Global South.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: GRI Publishes New Coal Standard

Chris Hall

This expert group includes representatives from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, standard setters EITI and SASB, and investment institutions FTSE Russell and S&P Global. More scrutiny is needed on the companies that remain in the coal sector, with accountability for their impacts.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. There is no waste in this model, everything is designed to last, be shared, reused, repaired, or recycled. It is focused on recycling waste to lower environmental costs.

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Investors’ Fight to Track Impact on Nature

Chris Hall

Keeping track of all the possible biodiversity and nature-related risks and impacts across a large corporate’s supply chain becomes “incredibly complex”, Cozic says. Other investors are working to develop and launch their own data solutions.

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ESG Explainer: Call of the Wild

Chris Hall

As well as drivers such as land and seascape changes, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species, the report also points to substantial expansion in the global trade in wild species in recent decades. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference. What has IPBES already told us?