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AccountAbility Joins With Global Commons Alliance and UN Climate Champions Team to Launch Navigator Addressing Nature and Climate Action

3BL Media

The Navigator brings vital rigor and clarity for organizations grappling with complex climate and nature priorities as they contribute to a more resilient and regenerative future ,” says Ms. Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator Executive Director. trillion per year from the global economy by 2030.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. We want financiers to commit $1 trillion USD annually to decarbonization and negative emissions technologies. These account for about 40% of global emissions but remain integral to modern standards of living.

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World Economic Forum: “Investing less than 1% of world GDP into nature-based solutions can tackle climate change and biodiversity crisis”

Envirotec Magazine

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. While investments in nature-based solutions cannot be a substitute for deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy, they can contribute to the required pace and scale of climate change mitigation and adaptation, concludes the report.

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Closing the Loop: Rethinking Operations, the Economy To Save the Planet

3BL Media

Redirecting food out of the “cowboy” economy (landfills or incinerators) and into the “spaceman” economy transforms food waste from a terrible GHG generator to a decarbonization and regenerative-agriculture weapon. The waste created from Cabot’s manufacturing processes is returned back to the two farms.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

And over additional 40 businesses have signed the World Green Building Council’s commitment to decarbonize the built environment across their portfolios and business activities. C is a campaign led by the Science Based Targets initiative in partnership with the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition. .

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. LinkedIn | Twitter.