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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. An estimated $100 billion per year in investment is required for financing climate related issues, a target that developed countries were aiming to achieve by 2020.

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Danone Launches Plan to Address Methane Emissions From Dairy Supply Chain

ESG Today

Global food and beverage company Danone announced a new sustainability commitment to tackle a major source of its greenhouse gas footprint, with an action plan to achieve a 30% absolute reduction in methane emissions from its fresh milk supply chain by 2030.

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UK Government appoints Arup as sustainability consultant for COP26

Envirotec Magazine

COP26 is to be held at the SEC, Glasgow, in November 2021. The UK Government, as hosts of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), has selected engineering, design and consultancy firm Arup to help it achieve its ambition of delivering a sustainable summit.

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World's Leading Agri-Commodity Companies Deliver Roadmap To Reduce Emissions From Land Use Change

3BL Media

It is the next step in a commitment set out at COP26 by leading agri-commodity companies that manage large global trade volumes in key agricultural commodities, including more than half of the global palm oil trade and Latin American soy exports. The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C

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Three Reasons Why Tackling Deforestation Is a Business Priority in 2022 and How to Prepare

3BL Media

In case there were any doubts about the business relevance of this issue, three developments over the past six months have put these to rest: Development 1: Deforestation rises to a top climate priority. The most recent UN climate conference, COP26, highlighted the role of forests and agriculture in ways we have not seen before.

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Coalition of Consumer Goods Companies Pushes for Corporate Investment in Production Landscapes in Latest Report

3BL Media

Such investment is a key element of the Coalition’s Forest Positive Approach , a set of actions that Coalition members are committed to implementing in their own supply chains through commodity-specific KPI reporting and, in collaboration with their upstream supply chain partners, in businesses and production landscapes across the value chain.

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The zero-carbon business leader takes shape

Corporate Knights

At the recent United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, diplomats from nearly 200 countries struck a major agreement to increase the fight against climate change — establishing a consensus that more must be done to protect the planet. It’s a connected chain. Be selective with suppliers. According to the?