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Sustainability Backsliding Doesn’t Have to Mean Back to Square One

Stanford Social Innovation

Companies should learn from the past, and think long term: In other periods of backsliding, leaders were separated from greenwashers. In some cases, this approach may reveal that the earlier strategy of greenwashing no longer needs to be maintained. Backsliding is not a new phenomenon that emerged with the second Trump administration.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now. The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities.

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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit

We Mean Business Coalition

make greenwashing easier to detect and allow companies that are really delivering on climate action to stand out from the crowd. Natasha Santos, vice president and head of global stakeholder affairs and strategic partnerships at Bayer spoke of the 200 million hectares now covered by farmers in their supply chain using regenerative practices.

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Take-off for the Net Zero Transition  

Chris Hall

Ahead of the conference, the data had been collected and analysed, with assessments delivered on the effectiveness of actions taken to date, primarily in the form of signatories’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. The official verdict was clear. C of climate change by 2100.

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

To support companies in their investments in nature, We Mean Business Coalition launched a new partnership with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity initiative (VCMI) , supporting companies to follow VCMI’s Claims Code and helping to ensure carbon market investments strengthen global action towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.