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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century

GreenBiz

Elsewhere, the news elicited a more lukewarm response, with a number of environmental campaigners slamming the commitment as "empty" due to its lack of a phaseout timeline for its support of fossil-fuel companies and businesses responsible for deforestation. That's just science, not finance.".

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What if there was a cooking oil that didn't drive deforestation?

Corporate Knights

The marketing campaign worked. Its success gave birth to a new era of cooking fats. That’s not good news for the Earth. But what if there was a cooking oil that didn’t drive deforestation? If I wanted to make soy-based land look really bad, I would include the largest estimates around the worst kinds of deforestation.”

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Carbon market scrutiny must be a call to action to improve them, not abandon them

We Mean Business Coalition

The good news is that guidance, service providers, and communities of practice are increasingly available. This provides companies with best-in-class guidance for companies looking to source carbon credits specifically from avoided tropical deforestation. The Tropical Forest Credit Integrity (TFCI) Guide.

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The Real Crisis

Sense and Sustainability

Though it has become easier and easier to forget the discussions of yesterday in today’s fast-spinning wheel of news cycles, not too long ago the question surrounding the coronavirus pandemic was one of a trade-off: health or economy? That is: what incentives does this discord generate?

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Oil industry pioneer wants to lead sustainable aviation revolution. Will it take off?

Corporate Knights

A lot of the time, it has been in the news for reasons that make management cringe. In May 2022, Carlos Calvo Ambel, a senior director of the Transport & Environment environmental campaign group, called the band Coldplay “useful idiots for greenwashing” Neste’s image. Most of Neste’s palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia.

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7 days in May: The climate finance week when everything changed

GreenBiz

And I’m not even talking about the onrush of net-zero commitments by companies, government and others, although they seem to be happening at an almost-daily clip — so much so that they are no longer news. Expect a new wave of campaigns, demonstrations, boycotts, investor pressure and other tools of the trade.

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Cocoa and smallholders: The Living Income Differential is a failure, so where next?

Tobias Webb

The cocoa trade journal, Confectionary News went further, and concluded that the LID has actually made the situation worse for smallholder farmers, who are seeing their incomes going down, not up. Doing the right thing, not the simple one. And it is this last point which is perhaps the most material.