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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. To be offered on a digital platform, the standard will assess companies as either ‘taking action’, ‘advancing’ or ‘leading’.

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The SAP Solution Transforming How Businesses Navigate Plastic Regulations

3BL Media

At the same time, businesses themselves are furthering their commitment to sustainable practices through voluntary agreements, such as those proposed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). According to UNEP , 91% of consumers express concern over plastic waste.

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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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Taking control of the harmful effects of air pollution to improve health outcomes

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Noel O’Kelly of monitoring technology firm Spirit Digital argues for greater access to air quality data and education, and he explains that the data is available today. Image credit: Max Chen , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 This challenge is associated with large health effects – effects that will continue to menace public health in the future”.

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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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Blanket Statements, Brick and Mortar of ESG Integration

Sense and Sustainability

Dis]Comfort Blanket It is this similar spirit behind our laser focus on disclosure and reporting that has forced the co-Chair of the UNEP Inquiry Simon Zadek to remark that “we moved from “if you want to manage it, measure it” to “if you are clueless what to do, then measuring it is a good comfort blanket.”

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Time to Break the EV Bottleneck

Chris Hall

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. It is working to address these systemic environmental and social risks and ensure a just transition to net zero.