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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. The first is the EU’s Sustainable Cocoa Initiative launched last Autumn. Other reports suggested that Mars was adopting a similar strategy.

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ESG Explainer: Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Chris Hall

As noted by the International Energy Agency (IEA), subsidies, regulated prices and taxes that favour fossil fuels are market distortions representing “a roadblock to a cleaner energy future”. But an IMF paper released in September 2021 estimated all fossil fuel subsidies globally at US$5.9 trillion in 2015 and at US$5.2

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Later that year, a worker at the silo died when pellets fell on the Bobcat machine he was operating.

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State of Corporate Conservation 2023: The Journey Towards Nature Positivity

3BL Media

As the only international NGO focused exclusively on enabling private sector action for nature, WHC has convened professionals working at the intersection of business and nature since 1990. It’s not as ambitious as nature positive by 2030, but what international treaty could ever be? I have to clarify that the U.S.

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Climate Talks - Episode 05: Counting Carbon

3BL Media

You may have heard these terms in the news lately, but what do they actually mean? Lauren Swezey | Meta | FCS Sustainability. Kati Kallins | Meta | Sustainability Engagement. Maybe you’ve heard on the news about the IPCC. Each week on Climate Talks, we’re taking on sustainability from a different angle. Transcript.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

And that’s what Corporate Knights found when we went looking for the Future 50 – Canada’s fastest-growing sustainable companies. . The result: a power-packed list of companies whose products and services bring bold new ideas to the sustainability front – and raise hopes that we can win the climate war. Burcon NutraScience.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

Action this decade must drive sustainable economic growth, build resilience and solidarity, and create new jobs as part of a just transition. . READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE > NEWS: . WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER – NEWS: . Anything less will simply not be enough to put us on track for 1.5°C. QUOTE: . “To

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