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What fake news about spiders can teach us about the global spread of (mis)information

Environmental News Bits

It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of (mis)information in many areas of life. Don’t blindly trust anything you read online about these eight-legged arthropods — or anything … Continue reading What fake news about spiders can teach us about the global spread of (mis)information.

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Moody’s Transfers Sustainable Debt Opinion Service to Ratings Agency, Proposes new Assessment Framework

ESG Today

Global integrated risk assessment firm Moody’s announced that it will transfer its sustainable debt Second Party Opinions (SPO) business to become part of its rating agency under Moody’s Investor Service (MIS), from its Moody’s ESG Solutions group.

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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

The regulators are concerned that investors may be getting misled – or mis-sold something that hasn’t been properly characterized,” Robinson said in an interview after participating in a session on the CARET project at the RIA conference in Toronto in early June. In the U.S.,

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NTAM Tackles “Twin Crises” of Climate and Biodiversity Loss

Chris Hall

Northern Trust Asset Management’s new passive strategy aims to meet investors’ climate change and natural capital criteria. The new strategy grows the firm’s range of sustainable index investment solutions.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

In addition, some bioplastics produce methane gas when they decompose, a compound with a global warming potential 25 times that of CO2. Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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India Consults on ESG Disclosures, Ratings Framework

Chris Hall

SEBI proposes the requirement of these ratios being adjusted for purchasing power parity, as they are “used by global investors and global ESG ratings providers”. As recommended by a committee established in May 2022, SEBI proposes to require verification of the reported data by an assurance provider.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched the +1 Global Fund , a network-based platform that leverages peer nominations to discover small, earlier-stage organizations in the Global South. In 2020, our understanding of systems change shifted in a wholly unexpected way. Is this a failure of imagination?