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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: UNEP FI Issues Oceans Toolkit for Investors

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including UNEP FI, ISS ESG, ISSB, Xpansiv and Carbon Trust. Carbon Trust has launched Route to Net Zero Standard, a three tier certification system that will rank companies’ progress to net zero.

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Time to Break the EV Bottleneck

Chris Hall

It is working to address these systemic environmental and social risks and ensure a just transition to net zero. The idea is to design a ‘digital twin’ for a physical battery which can convey the sustainability-related information of the product, including its carbon footprint and child labour and human rights performance.

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Finance Majors Invest in “Cleaner, Greener” Farming

Chris Hall

Yara has set a target for 150 million hectares of farmland to benefit by 2025 from digital processes that help in areas such as nutrient efficiency and reduction of pollution. Nuveen, with 1.2 At just seven members, a relatively small number of organisations have signed up to the programme so far.

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Re(Introducing) the Cisco Foundation Regenerative Future Fund: Redefining Impact in Climate Investing

3BL Media

billion in 2024, as companies transition from venture capital to bank loans and other funding sources ( Net Zero Insights ). Adaptation finance represents just 10% of global climate finance ( UNEP ), while investments in nature-based solutions and biodiversity remain underfunded despite their crucial role in combating climate change.

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Sustainable Agriculture: Aligned for Impact and Returns

Chris Hall

It’s important to realise that food and agriculture is a sleepy backwater, when it comes to technology and digital integration – it’s way behind other industries in terms of technological disruption.” To fix the food system, he says, it’s vital that capital continues to flow into sustainable agriculture. “It’s

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SDSN Reflects on an Impactful 2021!

Sustainable Development Network

In Europe , the EGD Senior Working Group on the Energy Transition published their first report, The Future Europe Wants: A Green and Digital, Job-Based and Inclusive Recovery from COVID-19 Pandemic.

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